Prof. Myung K. Kim (김명근)

I have been a faculty member of the Department of Physics at the University of South Florida, where I joined as an Associate Professor in 1995 and has been promoted to Full Professor in 2004. Previously, I was at the Wayne State University as an Assistant Professor of Physics, which followed Postdoctoral Fellowsheip at the Molecular Physics Laboratory of SRI International. I have Ph.D. degree in Physics from UC Berkeley, 1986 and B.S. degree in Physics and Mathematics from UCLA, 1979. My research interests are in the development of novel imaging techniques of digital holography using coherent and incoherent lights and applications ranging from holographic microscopy, 3D imaging, metrology, and biomedical imaging. I have published a monograph Digital Holographic Microscopy (Springer 2011). My publication list includes over 200 journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers, as well as having 15 patents issued. I have been serving as an Associate/Deputy Editor of the journal Applied Optics, since 2011 through 2021. I was elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America in 2010, and a Fellow of SPIE (International Society for Optics and Photonics) in 2017. In 2023, I have retired from USF as a Professor Emeritus.

 

Education
University of California, Berkeley, CA                 Physics                       Ph.D.                           1986
University of California, Los Angeles, CA          Physics & Math          B.S. Cum Laude        1979

Employment History
Professor, Aug. 2004 – present, Dept. of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Associate Professor, Aug. 1995 – May 2004, Dept. of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Assistant Professor, Aug. 1988 - May, 1995, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Postdoctoral Fellow, Jan. 1986 - Aug. 1988, Chemical Physics Laboratory, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA

Professional Affiliations
Advisory Committee, OSA DH (Digital Holography and 3D Imaging) Topical Meeting 2014
Elected Senior Member of the SPIE (2013)
Program Chair of OSA DH (Digital Holography and 3D Imaging) Topical Meeting 2013
Lead editor, Applied Optics feature issue on Digital Holography and 3D Imaging, to be published 2013
General Chair of OSA DH (Digital Holography and 3D Imaging) Topical Meeting 2012
Topical editor for Applied Optics, Information Processing Division (2011-2014)
Member, Optical Society of Korea (since 2011)
Member, Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (since 2011)
Elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America (2010)
SPIE Visiting Lecturer (2005-)
Member, Sigma Xi (since 2004)
Member, SPIE: International Society for Optical Engineering (since 2002)
Member, Optical Society of America (since 1986)
Member, American Physical Society (since 1985)
California State Graduate Fellowship (1979-1981)
Cum Laude with B.S. degree from UCLA (1979)