Prof. Tae-Gon Kim

Tae-Gon KIM is a professor of the major in Materials and Components Convergence Engineering at Hanyang University ERICA (Education Research Industry Cluster at Ansan) campus, South Korea. 

He received his master and Ph.D. degrees in material science and engineering from Hanyang University ERICA in 2001 and 2008, respectively. He worked for imec from 2008 to 2019 as senior researcher, contributing to numerous R&D projects in the areas of cleaning and metrology and inspection (MI) technologies such as STT-MRAM, 3D advanced packaging, advanced interconnect so on. Since 2019, he has been a faculty member at Hanyang University ERICA, where he has been engaged in teaching and research in the fields of cleaning, CMP, and MI technologies. He also serves as the committee manager of ISO TC201/SC9 (Scanning Probe Microscopy) actively contributing to international standardization efforts in surface analysis. In addition to his involvement in academic societies related to cleaning and CMP, he is also actively participating in professional communities dedicated to surface analysis.