Yun Soung Kim, PhD
- ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology
Research Topics:
Biomedical Sciences, Nanotechnology, Neurophysiology, Sleep Medicine, Technology & InnovationDr. Kim is Assistant Professor of Radiology in the BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His research focuses on developing soft, stretchable, and wireless electronic systems that gently integrates with the skin. Dr. Kim received BS and MS in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2009 and 2012, respectively, and PhD in Bioengineering from the University of California San Diego in 2017. In 2021, Dr. Kim completed his postdoctoral training at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he served as Research Faculty until 2022. Leveraging a wide range of emerging nanomanufacturing technologies, such as MEMS, aerosol-jet and screen printing, laser micromachining, and electronic chip integration, Dr. Kim strives to translate the concepts of smart medicine and human-machine interfaces into practical applications. Examples include a printed stress monitoring patch, a multi-functional patch with real-time alert features based on machine learning, and face-wearable sensors for ocular therapies.
To learn more about Dr. Kim's research, please visit the lab's website: the Advacned Wearable Sensors and Electronics Laboratory.
Multi-Disciplinary Training Areas
Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies in Medicine [AIET], Neuroscience [NEU], Pharmacology and Therapeutics Discovery [PTD]Education
BS/MS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
PhD, University of California San Diego
Postdoc, Georgia Institute of Technology
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2022
AMSM 2022 Young Scientist Award
Smart Health Care Enabled by Soft Wearable Sensors
The stretchable electronic sensors contain miniaturized integrated circuit components for long-range wireless communication, signal processing, and power management. The patch-like form factor allows the electronic sensors to be attached to areas beyond conventional acquisition sites as well as the ability to deploy multiple devices to capture a novel set of physiological data. Leveraging both machine learning algorithms and the abundance of personalized data, the stretchable electronic sensors serve as the perfect platform for disease diagnosis, human-machine interfaces, and long-term health monitoring, all without disrupting the user’s life style.
On-Skin Application of Soft Electronics
Human skin not only serves as the protective barrier for our internal organs but also provides numerous physiological information often manifested as time-varying electrical pulses. While employing these pulses (and other signals) to understand human health and disease diagnosis is nothing new (e.g., electrophysiology), the physical bulk of conventional tools needed to conduct electrophysiology critically limits where and when such recordings could take place. Extremely thin, low-profile, and stretchable electronic sensors that resemble a temporary tattoo, a clear bandage, or a sticky tag, enable comfortable and safe integration with human skin for high-fidelity human health and behavior monitoring.
Design and Fabrication of Soft Stretchable Electronics
Strategic integration of stretchable thin-film interconnection and soft materials, whose electrical and mechanical properties are tuned per application, grants a low-profile electronic system fully contained and functional for a comfortable and versatile skin integration. Dr. Kim and his colleagues showed the feasibility to replace the MEMS-based manufacturing process with an additive approach by various nano ink materials and an aerosol jet printer. Combining the novel method to release-and-transfer a large-area, stretchable electronic film, aerosol jet printing is beginning to shape the next era of the manufacturing of low-cost electronics.
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Below are financial relationships with industry reported by Dr. Kim during 2022 and/or 2023. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.
Other Activities: Examples include, but are not limited to, committee participation, data safety monitoring board (DSMB) membership.
- Elsevier
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