[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 86 (Wednesday, June 15, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1103]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    HONORING SUNG MO ``STEVE'' KANG

                                 ______
                                 

                            HON. JEFF DENHAM

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, June 15, 2011

  Mr. DENHAM. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to acknowledge and honor Sung 
Mo ``Steve'' Kang, Chancellor of the University of California, Merced; 
and to thank him for his leadership and dedication to the academic 
advancement of the Central Valley.
  Since March 1, 2007, Steve Kang has served as Chancellor of the 
University of California, Merced, the first American research 
university of the 20 century. Kang is an experienced educator, 
researcher and administrator. Previously, he was Dean of the Baskin 
School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. He now serves on the Central 
Valley Higher Education Consortium Board, MentorNet Advisory Board, the 
UC President's Advisory Council on Science and Innovation, Business-
Education Alliance of Merced County, and the Board of the Great Valley 
Center as its Chairman. He also serves on international advisory boards 
for institutions in Canada, Korea, Switzerland, and Taiwan.
  He brings a wealth of experience from a long and distinguished career 
in private industry and higher education. Kang served as a department 
head (1995-2000) and a professor (1985-2000) in electrical and computer 
engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a 
visiting professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at 
Lausanne, the University of Karlsruhe and the Technical University of 
Munich, and a Chaired Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering and 
Computer Science of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 
(KAIST). He has also taught at Rutgers University.
  Prior to his career in education, Kang worked for AT&T Bell 
Laboratories, where he led the development of the world's first 32-bit 
microprocessor chips as a technical supervisor and designed satellite-
based private communication networks as a member of technical staff.
  His leadership in industry is evidenced by his earlier appointment to 
the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nanotechnology, a joint federal-state 
venture to promote California as the premier center for nanotechnology 
research, development, and commercialization. He served as president of 
the Silicon Valley Engineering Council, the alliance for engineering 
leaders in Silicon Valley, with more than 60,000 engineers.
  Kang holds 15 U.S. patents in electrical engineering and has written 
or co-authored 11 books and 400 technical papers and won numerous 
awards and fellowships for his work and publications. His current 
research interests include nanoelectronics, lower-power, very large-
scale integrated (VLSI) circuits; modeling and simulation of 
semiconductor devices and circuits.
  Kang is a fellow of IEEE, ACM and AAAS, Foreign Member of National 
Academy of Engineering of Korea, and is listed in Who's Who in America, 
Who's Who in Technology, Who's Who in Engineering and Who's Who in 
Midwest. He received the Alexander von Humboldt U.S. Senior Scientist 
Award (1996), IEEE Millennium Medal (2000), Chang-Lin Tien Education 
Leadership Award (2007), Korean-American Leadership Award (2008), IQ 
Quality Award (2008), and many other accolades. Most recently (2009), 
Kang was inducted into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame.
  He earned his bachelor of science degree, graduating summa cum laude, 
from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, N.J.; his master of 
science from the State University of New York at Buffalo; and his 
doctorate from UC Berkeley. All his academic degrees are in electrical 
engineering. Kang and wife, Mia, live in the chancellor's residence in 
Merced. They have two grown children.
  Mr. Speaker, please join me in honoring and commending Sung Mo 
``Steve'' Kang, Chancellor of the University of California, Merced for 
his numerous years of selfless service to the education of our 
community.

                          ____________________