Kim Ki-Yong

Kim Ki-Yong is a Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park, affiliated with the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics (IREAP) and the Maryland NanoCenter. He joined the UMD faculty in 2008 after a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory, following his Ph.D. at UMD under Prof. Howard Milchberg. His research focuses on ultrafast lasers, terahertz and x-ray science, and high-energy-density plasmas.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Physics, University of Maryland (Advisor: Prof. Howard Milchberg)

Research Interests:

• Generation and application of ultrafast electromagnetic pulses (THz to X-rays)
• Laser-driven particle acceleration
• Ultrafast nano-optics
• Strong THz field physics

Awards:

• Fellow of Optica
• NSF Career Award
• DOE Early Career Research Award
• 2014 Richard A. Ferrell Distinguished Faculty Fellowship

Teaching: Courses include Physics 121/122 (Fundamentals of Physics), Physics 171 (Mechanics/Relativity), and Physics 485/685 (Electronic Circuits).

Labs & Groups: Leads the Ultra Fast Optical Science (UFOs) group, focusing on laser systems like the cryogenically cooled Ti:sapphire amplifier (15 mJ, <30 fs pulses at 1 kHz).