Jin Au Kong

Jin Au Kong (Traditional Chinese: 孔金甌; Simplified Chinese: 孔金瓯), (27 December 1942 – 13 March 2008) was an American expert in applied electromagnetics. He was a 74th-generation lineal descendent of the famous Chinese philosopher Confucius (551 BC – 479 BC).

Biography

Kong was born in Gaochun, Jiangsu Province. He received his BS from the National Taiwan University in 1962, his MS from the National Chiao Tung University in 1965, and his PhD from Syracuse University in 1968. His thesis supervisor was D.K. Cheng. Kong did his postdoctoral research at Syracuse University as well from 1968 to 1969. From 1969 to 1971, he was the Vinton Hayes Postdoctoral Fellow of Engineering.

Kong then moved to MIT, where he remained for the rest of his academic career, as assistant professor from 1969 to 1973, associate professor from 1973 to 1980, and promoted to full professor in 1980. From 1977 until his death in 2008, Kong served as a United Nations high-level consultant to the undersecretary-general, as well as an interregional advisor on remote sensing technology for the United Nations Department of Technical Cooperation for Development. At MIT, Kong supervised about 50 PhD theses and 90 Master theses. From 1984 to 2003, he was the chairman of Area IV on Energy and Electromagnetic Systems at MIT. From 1989 until 2008, Kong was director of the Center for Electromagnetic Theory and Applications in the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT.

Kong was president of The Electromagnetics Academy from 1989 to 2008. He also founded the Academy's China branch at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, known as The Electromagnetics Academy at Zhejiang University, serving as its dean from 2003 to 2008.

Kong was also the chairman of the Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), from 1989 to 2008. From 1987 to 2008, he was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications. He was also chief editor for Progress In Electromagnetics Research's (PIER) series (1989–2008), chief editor for Progress In Electromagnetics Research (PIER) Letters, B, M, C in 2008, and chief editor for PIERS Online from 2005 to 2008.[1]

Honors and awards

Kong was rewarded many honors and awards during his life, including:

Books

References

  1. MIT: Jin Au Kong President of The Electromagnetics Academy (1989-2008) Biography

External links

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