Stanford & Berkeley Korean Proefessors
posted: 17-Jun-2026 & updated: 17-Jun-2026
Korean Professors @ Stanford University
Gi-Wook Shin
- The most prominent Korean professor at Stanford!
- Professor of Sociology / Founding Director of the Korean Studies Program / Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies / Professor, by courtesy, of East Asian Languages & Cultures
- gwshin@stanford.edu
- Specialty: historical-comparative and political sociologist whose research concentrates on social movements, nationalism, development, democracy, migration, and international relations
- Served as director of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) from 2005 to 2025 —
- 신기욱 美스탠퍼드대 아·태 연구소장, 20년 만에 퇴임
Paul Kim
- Chief Technology Officer and Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Education
- phkim@stanford.edu
- Specialty - design of learning technologies, educational research, and community development
Seung K. Kim
- Professor, Developmental Biology, Medicine - Endocrinology, Gerontology, & Metabolism
- seungkim@stanford.edu
- Specialty: pancreatic islet development and biology, diabetes
Jin Hyung Lee
- Associate Professor @ Neurology and Neurological Sciences / Bioengineering / Neurosurgery
- ljinhy@stanford.edu
- Specialty: optogenetic fMRI and computational modeling of brain circuits, drawing on medical imaging, signal processing, genetics, and molecular biology
Hyun Suk Park
- Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
- hyunpark@stanford.edu
- Specialty - Korean literature and culture from the 17th–19th century, working in both Korean and literary Sinitic (hanmun 漢文)
Hyongsok Tom Soh
- W. M. Keck Foundation Professor of Electrical Engineering, Radiology (Diagnostic Sciences Laboratory) and of Bioengineering
- tsoh@stanford.edu
- Specialty: analytical biotechnology — high-throughput screening, directed evolution, and integrated biosensors.