Prof Kang is a full Professor and Dean of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University; recipient of the Special Government Allowance. He has been awarded the title of 'Outstanding Teacher of Beijing' and the “Beijing Municipal Prominent Teacher Award”. He is a Fellow of IEEE/IET/CSEE (Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering). He was awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the Leading Talents in Scientific and Technological Innovation of the "Ten Thousand Talents Plan," Program for New Century Excellent Talents of China, and selected for the Program of the Fok Ying-Tong Education Foundation. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, UK, from 2007 to 2008. He was appointed Outstanding Visiting Professor of Imperial College London, UK and Adjunct Professor of Yonsei University, South Korea.