By Kim Tae-gyu
Staff Reporter
A Korean scientist was picked as the recipient of the Outstanding Young Engineer Award of this year, given by the IEEE Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology (CPMT) Society.
Yim Myung-jin, a 34-year-old researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology, won the prestigious award _ a first for a Korean.
The award will be presented to Yim at the Electronic Component and Technology Conference that will be held in Reno, Nev., May 29-June 1.
The CPMT Society has conferred the annual award to a promising young scientist since 1996 on various criteria such as contributions to technology and product development.
The successful candidates of the award should be 35 years of age, or younger, and long-time members of the IEEE or the CPMT in the United States.
The CPMT Society is the leading international forum for scientists and engineers engaged in the research design and development of advances in micro-systems packaging and manufacture.
Yim received his Ph.D. from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 2001 and worked for the Daejeon-based school, roughly 160 kilometers south of Seoul, and a local venture company.
Up until now, Yim has written 40 research papers featured by globally top-notched peer-reviewed journals, with 28 of them being associated with semiconductor packaging and materials.
In addition, the young scientist holds a total of 12 Korean patents and many international ones.
Yim gleaned many awards in Korea before moving to the U.S. to conduct research at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Included in his lot of awards is the silver medal from the Samsung HumanTech Paper Award in 2000, which was given by Samsung Electronics.