Eungkyun (EK) Kim is a fifth-year PhD candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Cornell University, focusing on the design, fabrication, and characterization of III-nitride transistors in the Jena-Xing Laboratory. He is a 2021 recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP). His first-authored work has been published in Applied Physics Letters, IEEE Electron Device Letters, Applied Physics Express, and Nature, and he has received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2023 Device Research Conference (DRC) and the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 2024 DRC.