{"id":6119,"date":"2026-03-02T18:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/pico\/?page_id=6119"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:56:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:56:47","slug":"team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/pico\/team\/","title":{"rendered":"Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
\n
\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
\n
\"\"<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n

PERL<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

Team<\/h1>\n
\n
\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
\n
\n

Group Opening!<\/h2>\n

The Picoscale Engineering Group at UF is actively seeking multiple highly motivated graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. Our current interests are in tackling challenging problems in quantum science, semiconductors, and energy applications of societal interest through a combination of advanced electron microscopy and spectroscopy, including atomic electron tomography (AET) and atomic scale quantum mechanical simulations. Our team includes members from diverse interdisciplinary backgrounds, and successful candidates will have backgrounds in physics, applied physics, chemistry, materials science, electrical, mechanical, or chemical engineering.

For more information regarding current and future projects, please refer to the Research<\/a><\/strong> and Publications<\/a><\/strong> pages. If interested, please email your C.V. and a short description of your research interests to Prof. Kim.<\/strong><\/p>\nContact Prof. Kim<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n

\n
\n
\n
\n

Why ECE|Florida?<\/h2>\n




The beautiful campus of Florida’s flagship university in Gainesville is located in central Florida only a short drive to Jacksonville, Tampa, and Orlando. The University of Florida is home to over 54,000 diverse students including over 19,000 graduate students and is ranked as the No. 1 public institution on the 2024 Wall Street Journal\u2019s Best U.S. Colleges and considered a “new ivy” by Forbes. UF is a research powerhouse, investing more than $1 billion in research annually on discoveries and inventions that improve the world. The university supports research through the campus supercomputer HiperGator and the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Nanoscale Research Facility, Florida Semiconductor Institute and plans for a UF Quantum Institute. These facilities offer students access to state-of-the-art instruments and computational resources, including an aberration-corrected electron microscope.<\/p>\n

\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n
\n
\n
\n

PERL’s having fun<\/h1>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\"Slide<\/figure>\n
\n

Kim-Kim Group Outing at MomoYaki!<\/h2>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

\n
\"Slide<\/figure>\n
\n

Go Gators!<\/h2>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
\n
\n
\n
\n

Graduate Students<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n
\n
\"Card<\/div>\n

Shaeekul Ameen, ECE PhD Student<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

\n
\n
\"Card<\/div>\n

Quazi Shafayat Hossain, ECE PhD Student<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

\n
\n
\"Card<\/div>\n

Jeonghyeon Kim, ECE PhD Student<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

\n
\n
\"Card<\/div>\n

Adithya Narayanaswamy<\/strong>, ChE MS Student<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

\n
\n
\n
\n

Undergraduate Students<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n
\n
\"Card<\/div>\n

Wasseem Barghouthi, EE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

\n
\n
\"Card<\/div>\n

Daniel Takshi, EE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

\n
\n
\"Card<\/div>\n

Charley G. Kennedy, CpE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

\n
\n
\"Card<\/div>\n

Carter Timmons, CpE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

\n
\n
\n

Principal Investigator (PI)<\/h1>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\"Faculty\n
\n

Dennis S. Kim, PhD<\/p>\n

Assistant Professor<\/p>\n

Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/a><\/p>\n

Send Email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

\n
\n

Education<\/h1>\n
\n

PhD California Institute of Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

BS University of Massachusetts Amherst <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

\n
\n

Professional Experience<\/h1>\n
\n

2024 – present<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Assistant Professor, University of Florida<\/p>\n\n

2022-2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Research Scientist, University of California Los Angeles<\/p>\n\n

2020-2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>\n\n

2017-2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

STROBE Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

\n
\n

Bio<\/h1>\n
\n

Dr. Dennis S. Kim holds a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. Prior to joining UF, he was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a STROBE postdoctoral fellow and a research scientist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and Chemistry, respectively, at UCLA. For further details on past, ongoing, and upcoming projects, please visit the research page.<\/p>\n\n

Link to C.V.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

\n
\n

Awards<\/h1>\n
\n
    \n
  • STROBE Postdoctoral Fellow Award 2017<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Langmuir-NSSA Outstanding Student Poster Presentation Award at the American Conference <\/span>for Neutron Scattering 2014<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association KUSCO-KSEA Scholarship for Gradu<\/span>ate Students 2013<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • Youngnak General Academic Scholarship 2012<\/span><\/li>\n
  • California Institute of Technology Clark Graduate Fellowship 2011-2012<\/span><\/li>\n
  • American Institute of Chemists Award 2011<\/span><\/li>\n
  • George R. Richason, Jr. Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research 2009<\/span><\/li>\n
  • University of Massachusetts Amherst Commonwealth Honors College Merit Scholarship 2008-<\/span>2011<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n

    \u00a0<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1397,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-6119","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/pico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/pico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/pico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/pico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/pico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6119"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/pico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6925,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/pico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6119\/revisions\/6925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/pico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}