K-GTSEC Leadership
K-GTSEC center’s leadership is committed to organizing, integrating, and facilitating joint research and development activities of semiconductor and electronics technologies with Korean industries and Georgia Tech’s researchers

W. Hong Yeo, PhD
Executive Director

Harris Saunders, Jr. Professor
Director of Center for Wearable Intelligent Systems and Healthcare (WISH)
Associate Professor at George W. Woodruff School
of Mechanical Engineering

Michael Filler, PhD
Co-Director

Interim Executive Director of Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN)
Professor at the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Muhannad Bakir, PhD
Co-Director

Director of 3D Systems Packaging Research Center (PRC)
Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Hojoong Kim, PhD
Program Manager

Research Faculty of Center for Wearable Intelligent Systems and Healthcare (WISH)


K-GTSEC Collaborators


+ 50 faculty/researchers working in the semiconductor electronics field at Georgia Tech

  • Conventional and emerging nanoelectronic and spintronic devices and interconnects
  • Wide bandgap semiconductor microelectronics and optoelectronic devices 
  • Nanophotonic materials and devices for plasmonics and metamaterials 
  • Ultrasonic devices that can be integrated with microsystems 
  • Energy-efficient computing systems 
  • Nano/micro-electro-mechanical systems, resonant devices for timing, sensing, and RF applications
  • N/MEMS-based technologies for biomedical applications 
  • Physical design automation for VLSI circuits and 3D circuit/packaging layout automation