Donhee Ham

Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics

School of Engineering & Applied Sciences (SEAS)
Harvard University

131 Maxwell-Dworkin Laboratory
33 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA 02138
617-496-9451, donhee@seas.harvard.edu

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Donhee Ham:

2009.7 - Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering & Applied Physics, Harvard U.
2007.7 - John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences, Harvard U.
2006.7 - Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Harvard U.
2002.9 - Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Harvard U.

2002.6. - PhD. EE. California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
1999.6. - MS. Physics. Caltech.
1996.2. - BS. Physics. Seoul National University.

Donhee Ham is Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics at Harvard University, where he is with the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

He earned a B.S. in physics from Seoul National University, South Korea, in 1996, where he graduated summa cum laude with the Valedictorian Prize as well as the Presidential Prize, ranked top 1st across the Natural Science College, and also with the Physics Gold Medal (sole winner). Following a year and a half of mandatory service in the Korea Army, he went to Caltech for a graduate training in physics. There he worked on general relativity and gravitational astrophysics under Professor Barry Barish, and later obtained a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 2002 winning the Charles Wilts Prize for the best thesis in Electrical Engineering. His doctoral work examined the statistical physics of electrical circuits. He was the recipient of the IBM Doctoral Fellowship, Li Ming Scholarship, IBM Faculty Partnership Award, IBM Research Design Challenge Award, Silver Medal in the National Mathematics Olympiad, and the fellow of the Korea Foundation of Advanced Studies. He shared Harvard's Hoopes prize with William Andress. He was recognized by MIT Technology Review as among the world's top 35 young innovators in 2008 (TR35), for his group's work on CMOS RF biomolecular sensor utilizing nuclear spin resonance to pursue disease screening and medical diagnostics in a low-cost, hand-held platform.
Donhee Ham teaching

Donhee Ham's work experiences include Caltech-MIT Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO), IBM T. J. Watson Research, IEEE conference technical program committees including the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) and the IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (ASSCC), advisory board for the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits & Systems (ISCAS), international advisory board for the Institute for Nanodevice and Biosystems, and various US, Korea, and Japan industry, government, & academic technical advisory positions on subjects including ultrafast electronics, science & technology at the nanoscale, and the interface between biotechnology and solid-state circuits. He served as a guest editor for the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC; Jan 2009 special issue) and was a co-editor of CMOS Biotechnology with Springer (2007).


Ham's current research focus is on (1) RF/microwave, analog & mixed-signal ICs, (2) ultrafast 1-dimensional electronic and plasmonic transport, (3) soliton and nonlinear wave electronics, (4) applications of CMOS ICs in biotechnology, and (5) quantum computing on silicon. At Harvard University, Donhee Ham works with a group of talented electrical engineering and physics students, which include absolute 1st rankers from top universities worldwide, US intercollegiate science competitions, and international science competitions.
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Maxwell-Dworkin Laboratory, Harvard U, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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(617) 495-2489, donhee@seas.harvard.edu
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