Kyungjin Kim

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor

Dr. Kyungjin Kim joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Connecticut in Fall 2021. Before joining, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Lacour lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), working on chronic soft neuroprosthetic implants. She received her PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2018 and BS from KAIST, South Korea, in 2014, both in Mechanical Engineering. Her work focuses on novel thin film composite materials where optimizations and reliability analysis of fatigue and fracture of materials are required. She is currently developing long-term functioning soft and deformable electronic devices using vacuum-processed hermetic encapsulations and various quality control methods, ultimately to engineer the reliability of next-generation devices such as flexible and stretchable electronics, implantable bioelectronics both in the materials and device level.