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Sung Kyu Lim

GaTech Instructor

sl186@gatech.edu

Compensation history

YearTitleCategoryOrganizationSalaryTravel
FY2025PROFESSORTeaching FacultyGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$242,196$66,624
FY2024PROFESSORTeaching FacultyGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$230,146$54,760
FY2023PROFESSORTeaching FacultyGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$223,593$49,874
FY2022PROFESSORTeaching FacultyGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$194,226$7,475
FY2021PROFESSORTeaching FacultyGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$188,393—
FY2020PROFESSORTeaching FacultyGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$188,774$32,432
FY2019PROFESSORTeaching FacultyGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$182,228$28,568
FY2018PROFESSORTeaching FacultyGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$178,473$32,919
FY2017PROFESSORTeaching FacultyGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$175,287$18,375
FY2016PROFESSORTeaching FacultyGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$169,108$26,337
FY2016FELLOW ADResearchGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$39,988—
FY2015PROFESSORTeaching FacultyGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$147,571$21,276
FY2015FELLOW ADResearchGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$5,536—

Federal grants acquired

Public NIH + NSF awards where this person is the lead/contact PI, FY2017–2017. A defensible lower bound — co-PI, non-federal, and unmatched awards are not counted.

Total federal
$450K
NIH
$0
NSF
$450K
Awards
1
$405K$423K$441K$459K$477K$495KFY2017

Research output

Scholarly record from OpenAlex, publishing since 1997. Author matched by name; metrics are indicative. ORCID 0000-0002-2267-5282.

h-index
54
Citations
9.9K
Works
608
Works FY15–25
270
Publications and citations by year
0108.8217.6326.4435.25440714222936CitationsWorks20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Works (bars, right axis)Citations received (line, left axis)

Career history

Prior positions and education from ORCID (self-reported). Academic history is well covered; corporate and founder roles are often omitted, so their absence isn’t evidence they don’t exist.

2025–Dean’s Professor, University of Southern California · Electrical and Computer Engineeringacademic
2001–2025Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology · School of Electrical and Computer Engineeringacademic

Georgia Tech teaching

213 classes taught24 distinct coursesSpring 2006 – Spring 2026
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Compiled from public records and matched by name — grant, research, and teaching figures are indicative and may be incomplete or, rarely, misattributed, and do not reflect a person’s worth. See methodology. Report a correction.