Sung Soo Kim

Bio

Sung Soo studied to be an electrical engineer and received his M.S. for developing an automated controller, using artificial neural networks, of a nuclear power plant steam generator. Then he went to Thailand as an overseas volunteer to teach computer science at a rural university, where he became interested in real biological neural networks and found an academic field called Neuroscience. He began his journey studying enormous primate brains, but now he studies tiny brains of fruit flies, which allow him to exploit high-precision genetic tools to understand the neural basis of complex behaviors.

• Assistant Professor, MCDB, UCSB
• Postdoc, Janelia Research Campus / Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA
• Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
• M.S., Seoul National University, South Korea
• B.S., Seoul National University, South Korea

Awards, scholarship, honors

• NSF CAREER Award
• McKnight Scholar Award
• Klingenstein-Simons Fellow in Neuroscience
• Sloan Research Fellow
• Searle Scholar, Kinship Foundation
• NIH Director's New Innovator Award
• Johng S. Rhim Young Investigator Award
• The Samsung Scholarship, The Samsung Scholarship Foundation/Korean government
• The Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship