Youngwan (Willis) Kim obtained his Dual B.S degree magna cum laude in Electrical Engineering from Kyungpook National University, Korea and University of Texas, Dallas in 2011. During his undergraduate studies, he worked as a circuit designer and system developer at Winitech (South Korea) from 2007 to 2009 for central monitoring and control systems used by police and fire station. Also, he worked on the project "Active Terahertz Imaging Using Schottky Diodes in CMOS" at Texas Analog Center of Excellence (TxACE) under Prof. Kenneth K. O.  

He received his M.S from the department of electrical engineering in Columbia University, in 2013. He is currently a PhD student, working on implantable and flexible electronics-based on biophotonics with Prof. Kymissis and Prof. Andreas Hielscher.