Sung Mo (Steve) Kang

Sung-Mo (Steve) Kang received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. Until 1985 he was with AT&T Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill and Holmdel, and also has served as a faculty member at Rutgers University. In 1985, he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he is Department head of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Research Professor of the Coordinated Science Laboratory and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. He is also an Associate in the Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1995, he was named a Charles Marshall University Scholar at the University of Illinois. He has served as Associate Director of NSF Engineering Research Center for Compound Semiconductor Microelectronics and Director of University of Illinois Center for ASIC Research and Development. In 1997 he was Humboldt visiting professor at the university of Karlsruhe, Germany. In 1989 Visiting Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne. His research interests include VLSI design methodologies and optimization for performance, reliability and manufacturability, modeling and simulation of semiconductor devices and circuits, and high-speed optoelectronic circuits, and fully optical network systems.

He has served as AdCom member, Secretary and Treasurer, Administrative Vice President, and 1991 President of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He has served on the program committees and technical committees of major international conferences which include DAC, ICCAD, ICCD, ISCAS, MCMC, International Conference on VLSI and CAD(ICVC), Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, LEOS Topical Meeting, SPIE OE/LASE Meeting, and on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, and Circuits, Signals and Systems. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems.

Dr. Kang is a Fellow of IEEE, A.A.A.S, a foreign member of National Academy of Engineering of Korea, listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Technology and Who's Who in Engineering. He has received the IEEE CAS Society Technical Achievement Award(1997), Alexandervon Humboldt Research Award for Senior US Scientists(1996), IEEE Graduate Teaching Technical Field Award (1995), IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Meritoroius Service Award (1994), SRC Inventor Recognition Awards (1993, 1996), IEEE CAS Darlington Prize Paper Award (1993) and other best paper awards (1979, 1987, 1996) and coauthored five books, Design Automation For Timing-Driven Layout Synthesis(1992), Hot-Carrier Reliability of MOS VLSI Circuits(1993), Physical Design for Multichip Modules (1994), and Modeling of Electrical Overstress in Integrated Circuits (1994) from Kluwer Academic Publishers, and CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits: Analysis and Design by McGraw-Hill (1995), and Computer-Aided Design of Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits and Systems by Prentice-Hall(1997).

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Research Links

Early VLSI Chip Design at Bell Laboratories

S. M. Kang
155 Everitt Lab
University of Illinois
1406 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801

Email: s-kang1@uiuc.edu
Phone: (217) 333-2301
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