Dr. Kim, E.Y.

Dr. Euiyoung Kim is Assistant Professor of Design for Dynamic Stability in the Design, Organisation, and Strategy (DOS) department and Co-director of the Automated Mobility Lab at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. Dr. Kim’s research and teaching interests involve a variety of areas of future mobility, human-centric research, design thinking, new product design & development, design-driven innovation, IoT, cybersecurity, and design education.

Academic Background

Euiyoung was previously a lecturer & postdoc at Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the research director in the Berkeley Research for Autonomous Vehicle Opportunities (BRAVO), and a co-principal investigator on several research projects on the topic of future mobility, design process and methods, cybersecurity, and next digital. He received a PhD degree at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, focusing on Design Theory & Methods and New Product Development in the summer of 2016. He was granted a MS degree in Engineering Design Innovation at Northwestern University in 2011. Prior to moving to the United States, he worked in a strategic marketing team at Samsung Electronics.

Education

• 2011 – 2016
  Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Design Concentration), University of California, Berkeley, US
• 2010 – 2011
  M.S. in Engineering Design Innovation, Northwestern University, US
• 1999 – 2006
  B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

Experience

• 2019 – Present
  Assistant Professor, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, NL
• 2016 – 2019
  Post-doctoral Design Fellow & Lecturer, Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, University of California, Berkeley, US
  Post-doctoral Researcher & Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, US
• 2011 – 2016
  Graduate Student Researcher (GSR), University of California, Berkeley, US
  Graduate Student Instructor (GSI), University of California, Berkeley, US
• 2014 – 2015
  Ph.D. Researcher, Samsung Research America, US
• 2006 – 2012
  Assistant Manager, Strategic Marketing Team, Samsung Electronics, South Korea

Lectures and/or coaches students on:

• Reimagining Mobility
• SPD Research
• Design Theory and Methodology (DTM)
• Context and Conceptualisation (C&C)

• Finalist (selected as Top 3) of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Design Education Best Paper Nomination, 2022
• Best Paper Presentation Award, Korean Society of Transportation Conference, 2022
• Finalist (selected as Top 3) of the Best Article Award, California Management Review, 2020
• ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Design Theory and Methods (DTM) Best Paper Award, 2020
• ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Design Theory and Methods (DTM) Best Paper Award, 2016
• ICED (International Conference on Engineering Design) Reviewers' favorite Award, 2015
• Fellow of SIPFF (Summer Institute for Preparing Future Faculty) at UC Berkeley, 2015
• Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley, 2014
• ICED (International Conference on Engineering Design) Reviewers' favorite Award, 2013