Heung Soo Kim received his BS and MS degrees from the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Inha University, Korea, in 1997 and 1999, respectively. He obtained his PhD degree from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Arizona State University in 2003. He is now working as a professor in the Department of Mechanical, Robotics, and Energy Engineering at Dongguk University, Korea. His main research interests are smart materials and structures as applied to aerospace structures and vehicles.