Kang G. Shin

After over 46 years as an academic, Kang G. Shin retired from regular teaching and university committees at the end of 2025 but remains active in pursuing exciting research ideas and working with his PhD students and postdocs as well as visitors. He is now the Emeritus Kevin and Nancy O'Connor Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Michigan. It has been his immense joy and privilege to work with a great many excellent students (especially 93 PhD students so far), postdocs, visitors, and faculty colleagues. He is currently exploring high-impact research problems in the areas of mobile/wearable networks and systems and apps, security and privacy, as well as cyber-physical systems, especially semi-autonomous (human-in-the-loop) systems. His group has also been using and/or developing machine learning, digital signal processing, and control algorithms to address the various research issues associated with these systems and applications. These research issues are often motivated by, and hence their results are applicable to, real-life systems such as autonomous cars and robots, smart phones and homes, smart connected communities, and human health and wellness.