Sohmyung Ha

Sohmyung Ha is an assistant professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering at New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE. He received the B.S degree summa cum laude and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea, in 2004 and 2006, respectively. From 2006 to 2010, he worked as an analog and mixed-signal circuit designer at Samsung Electronics, Yongin, Korea. He was a part of the engineering team responsible for several of the world’s best-selling multimedia devices, smartphones, and TVs. After an extended career in industry, he returned to academia as a Fulbright Scholar. He obtained the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees with the best Ph.D. thesis award for biomedical engineering from the Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA, in 2015 and 2016, respectively. Since 2016, he has been with New York University Abu Dhabi and New York University.

He currently serves as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems and Frontiers in Electronics, and as a topic editor of Electronics (MDPI). He served as an associate editor of Smart Health (Elsevier) from 2016 to 2021. He is a member of the Analog Signal Processing Technical Committee (ASP TC) and the Biomedical and Life Science Circuits and Systems Technical Committee (BioCAS TC) of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS). He is also a member of IMMD (imagers, medical, mems, displays) subcommittee of the international technical program committee (ITPC) of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) from 2022.

Education

• Ph.D., Bioengineering, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
• M.S., Bioengineering, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
• B.S., Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

Industry Experience

• Engineer, Mixed-Signal Core Design Team, Semiconductor Division, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., 2006-2010

Research Areas:

• Biomedical circuits and sensors for implantable and wearable applications