Hee Chan Kim, Ph.D.

Office: Seoul National University Hospital #11315
E-mail: hckim@snu.ac.kr
Tel.: +82-2-2072-2931
Fax: +82-2-745-7870

Professor Kim Hee Chan received the Ph.D. degree in control and instrumentation engineering (biomedical engineering major) from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea in 1989. From 1982 to 1989, he has worked as a research member at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of Seoul National University Hospital. From 1989 to 1991, he was a staff engineer working on National Institute of Health(NIH)-funded electrohydraulic total artificial heart project at the Artificial Heart Research Laboratory of the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA. He joined the faculty of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, Seoul National University in 1991, where he is currently a full professor. He worked with the University of Utah group again at the Department of Pharmaceutics and the Artificial Heart Research Laboratory as a visiting professor from 1993 to 1994. He is now leading the Medical Electronics Laboratory(MELab) of the Seoul National University, where major research activities include development of biosignal processing, medical instrumentations, artificial organs, biosensors, and health informatics. In these areas, he has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers in international journals. Professor Kim is the president of the Korea Society of Medical and Biological Engineering (KOSOMBE), and a member of IEEE/EMBS, and American Society of Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO).