Summary
Sung Lim is Dean’s Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at USC and a long-tenured academic leader who joined from Georgia Tech, where he started his faculty career in 2001. He specializes in architecture, design, and EDA for 2.5D and 3D integrated circuits, authoring over 400 publications and earning top awards from IEEE TCAD and DAC. A IEEE Fellow and NSF CAREER recipient, he blends deep scholarly impact with practical program leadership from a recent stint as a DARPA MTO program manager. His work has repeatedly influenced both industry and policy directions in heterogeneous integration, including recognition as a Research Highlight in Communications of the ACM. An awarded educator, he has been honored multiple times for teaching excellence, reflecting a rare combination of impactful research, mentorship, and systems-level thinking. Trained at UCLA (BS/MS/PhD), he brings decades of design automation expertise applied to next-generation 3D systems.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BS, MS, PHD, Computer Engineering, BS, MS, PHD, Computer Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles
Korean, English