Kyungjin Kim

Assistant Professor

Prof. Kyungjin Kim joined our school in Fall 2021. She brings expertise at the intersection of soft electronics, mechanics and materials reliability, and biomedical engineering.

Before joining UConn, Prof. Kim was a postdoctoral fellow in the Lacour Lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne in Switzerland, where she worked on chronic soft neural interfaces. She earned her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2018 and her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from KAIST in 2014.

Prof. Kim’s research focuses on developing long-term, high-reliability soft and deformable electronic systems. Her work integrates advanced quality control strategies and hermetic encapsulation approaches to enhance the durability of next-generation implantable bioelectronic devices at both the material and device levels.

Her primary research effort centers on chronically stable soft neural interfaces and spans several areas:
• Design and modeling of flexible and stretchable materials and thin film structures
• Implantable bioelectronics, soft neuroprosthetics, and encapsulation manufacturing
• Failure analysis, including fracture and fatigue, using multimodal experimental and computational methods

Through this interdisciplinary research, Prof. Kim builds connections across microengineering, materials science, and biomedical engineering to advance the performance and long-lived reliability of neural interfaces.