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Jong-Jin Kim is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan's Taubman College, specializing in sustainable building technology. His research focuses on environmental sustainability and technological innovation in architecture. He conducts extensive work on sustainable design, daylighting, solar energy production, and zero energy buildings. His current projects explore the feasibility of water self-sufficient buildings and the development of photovoltaic integrated energy producing facades. With a solid background in academia, he has published and lectured internationally on environmental sustainability. He has served as an honorary editor for the Encyclopedia of Life Supporting Systems, organized under UNESCO, and received the Brain-Pool Fellowship from the Korean Science and Engineering Foundation. In 2017, he secured funding from the University of Michigan’s Century Initiatives to develop the Interactive Satellite Solar Lab (ISSL), an innovative teaching and research tool for energy self-sufficient buildings. Jong-Jin also collaborates with architectural practitioners on green building projects.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science