Sangtae Kim

Sangtae Kim is Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University where he was also the inaugural Donald W. Feddersen Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering. His other professional experiences include Executive Director, Morgridge Institute for Research; Director, NSF Cyberinfrastructure Division; V.P. of R&D IT in pharmaceutical companies Eli Lilly and Warner Lambert. He started his career as a faculty member in chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he engaged in mathematical and computational methods for microhydrodynamics and coauthored (with S.J. Karrila) the 1991 book on microhydrodynamics. His computational insights into "hydrodynamic steering" played an influential role in 1994-95 in the development of fluidic self assembly (FSA), the novel process for manufacturing low-cost UHF RFID tags. Dr. Kim is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers. His honors include the 2013 Ho-Am Prize in Engineering, the 1993 Allan P. Colburn Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the 1992 Award for Initiatives in Research from the National Academy of Sciences and a 1985 NSF Presidential Young Investigator award. Dr. Kim received concurrent BSc and MSc degrees (1979) from Caltech and a PhD (1983) from Princeton. A website with useful information including the errata sheet for Microhydrodynamics: http://www.Microhydrodynamics.org