Education
PhD in Acoustics
Kang Kim
University of Pittsburgh
Bioengineering
Profile
Kang Kim, PhD is a Professor of Bioengineering (Primary) and Medicine at The University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Kim directs the Multi-modality Biomedical Ultrasound Imaging Laboratory (http://www.pitt.edu/~kangkim/ ) Dr. Kim’s research emphasis is on development and application of multi-modality imaging sensors and systems that are capable of characterizing the structural, mechanical, compositional properties of tissues and organs. Dr. Kim earned his Bachelor’s in Educational Physics at Seoul National University. He then got his Master’s in Physics from University of Pierre & Marie Curie in Paris before his PhD in Acoustics at Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Kim became a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, then a Research Faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan before joining the University of Pittsburgh in 2008. He is Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and Senior Member of IEEE UFFC.
| Satarpour, Maryam | MAS1338@pitt.edu | PhD student |
| Wei, Ran | RAW195@pitt.edu | PhD student |
| Gholami, Reyhaneh | REG100@pitt.edu | PhD student |
| Hosseini, Zahra | ZAH54@pitt.edu | PhD student |
| Chao, Yu-hsuan | YUC125@pitt.edu | PhD student |
| Balambal Suryanarayanan | BALAMS@pitt.edu | PhD student |
| Wang, Jiayi | JIW472@pitt.edu | PhD student |
| Chengxuan Xia | chengxux@andrew.cmu.edu | MS student |
| Ruoshui Song | ruoshuis@andrew.cmu.edu | MS student |
Research
Dr. Kim’s research seeks to develop and translate state-of-the-art noninvasive ultrasound imaging technologies to (1) improve disease diagnosis; (2) guide therapeutic strategies; and (3) evaluate therapeutic efficacy. His research emphasis is on development and application of multi-modality imaging systems that are based on a fundamental understanding of how sound and light interact with soft tissues, and can characterize the structural, mechanical, compositional properties of tissues and organs and their underlying biological activities at the cellular level.
Most Cited Publications
Kim K, Agarwal A, Huang S, Denny MF, Kaplan MJ, Ashkenazi S, O'Donnell M, Kotov NA. Photoacoustic imaging of early inflammatory response using gold nanorods. Appl Phys Lett. 2007;90:223901 1-3.
Kim K, Huang SW, Hall TL, Witte RS, Chenevert TL, O'Donnell M. Arterial vulnerable plaque characterization using ultrasound-induced thermal strain imaging (TSI). IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2008 Jan;55(1):171-80.
Non-invasive monitoring of tissue scaffold degradation using ultrasound elasticity imaging K Kim, CG Jeong, SJ Hollister, Acta biomaterialia 4 (4), 783-790
Super-resolution ultrasound imaging method for microvasculature in vivo with a high temporal accuracy J Yu, L Lavery, K Kim Scientific reports 8 (1), 13918
A natural vanishing act: the enzyme-catalyzed degradation of carbon nanomaterials GP Kotchey, SA Hasan, AA Kapralov, SH Ha, K Kim, AA Shvedova, ..., Accounts of chemical research 45 (10), 1770-1781
Recent Publications
Zhiyu Sheng, Ran Wei, Mengyue Chen, Matthew B. Wielgat, Dhanansayan Shanmuganayagam, Edith Tzeng, Xuecang Geng, Xiaoning Jiang, Kang Kim. Experimental Evaluation of an Array Transducer for Ultrasound Thermal Strain Imaging: Phantom and In Vivo Studies. Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2025, 51 (9 ) 1459-1467.
Chen M, Sheng Z, Wei R, Zhang B, Kim H, Wu H, Chu Y, Chen Q, Breon A, Li S, Wielgat MB, Shanmuganayagam D, Tzeng E, Geng X, Kim K, Jiang X. Millisecond-level transient heating and temperature monitoring technique for ultrasound-induced thermal strain imaging. Theranostics 2025; 15(3):815-827.
Z. Sheng, E. Bedoy, B. Dicianno, D. Weber, K. Kim. Image-Derived Skeletal Muscle Activation Metric Map: a Forearm Study Using Ultra-Fast Ultrasound Imaging and High-Density Electromyography. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 24-34, Jan. 2025,
Min Gon Kim, Kai Yu, Chih-Yu Yeh, Raghda Fouda, Donovan Argueta, Stacy Kiven, Yunruo Ni, Xiaodan Niu, Qiyang Chen, Kang Kim, Kalpna Gupta, Bin He. Low-intensity transcranial focused ultrasound suppresses pain by modulating pain processing brain circuits. Blood. 2024 Jul 8:blood.2023023718.
Qiyang Chen, Fang-Wei Liu, Sung Kwon Cho, Kang Kim. 3-D real-time ultrasound tracking of acoustically actuated swimming microdrone. Sci Rep 14, 1547 (2024).