curriculum vitae

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Appointments

Postdoctoral Researcher, InnoCORE PRISM-AI Center, KAIST Aug 2026 – Present
Faculty host: Prof. Seunghwa Ryu

Education

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, KAIST Feb 2022 – Aug 2026
Advisor: Prof. Seunghwa Ryu
Thesis: Micromechanical modeling and analysis of composites with interface and interphase effects
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, KAIST Feb 2020 – Feb 2022
Advisor: Prof. Seong Su Kim
Thesis: (A) study on permeability prediction of fiber-reinforced composite materials based on the representative volume element
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, KAIST Mar 2014 – Feb 2020
Military service: Sergeant, ROK Army/Korean Augmentation to The U.S. Army (KATUSA), Aug. 2016 - Apr. 2018.

Awards and honors

Outstanding Paper Award, KSME May 2026
Title: Multi-fidelity surrogates for efficient prediction of SFRP mechanical properties
Outstanding Paper Award, KSME CAE & Applied Mechanics Division Apr 2025
Title: Modeling and simulation of DLP 3D printing process using Abaqus
Excellent Poster Presentation Award, KMSM Dec 2022
Title: Efficient surrogate modeling of effective modulus for particle-reinforced composites with transfer learning framework
Academic Excellence Award, Mechanical Engineering, KAIST Fall 2018 & Spring 2019
Dean's List, College of Engineering, KAIST Fall 2018

Academic Talks & Teaching

LLM tool-calling tutorial, KAIST Industry-Academia Open Course, Republic of Korea Feb 2026
Teaching assistant; led a one-hour lecture and hands-on tutorial on LLM usage and tool-calling for homogenization workflows
LLM tool-calling tutorial, 2026 Winter AI Class of KSCM, Republic of Korea Feb 2026
Teaching assistant; led a one-hour lecture and hands-on tutorial on LLM usage and tool-calling for homogenization workflows
Invited group talk, Prof. Patrick C. Lee group, University of Toronto, Canada Nov 2023
Introduction to multi-fidelity machine learning and its utilization for experimental data

Research Mentoring

Mr. Inhyo Lee Jan 2025 – Oct 2025
Research design & manuscript preparation; published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Mr. Sangwoo Jung Jun 2024 – Oct 2025
Master's research: modeling of DLP 3D printing process; manuscript in preparation
Mr. Hanbin Cho Aug 2023 – Aug 2024
Master's research: numerical analysis & Bayesian optimization; published in Journal of Energy Storage
Mr. Hyeonseong Jo Feb 2021 – Feb 2022
Master's research: experimental design, permeability analysis, numerical modeling

Professional services

Journal reviewer: Nature Communications, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Scientific Reports, Applied Composite Materials, Progress in Additive Manufacturing, Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, and more

Technical skills

Programming: Python, Fortran, MATLAB, LaTeX
Simulation: Abaqus, FEniCSx, COMSOL, HyperWorks, Moldflow, ANSYS Fluent
ML & AI: PyTorch, GPy, LangChain, LangGraph
Experimental Design & Validation: Material and process characterization, experimental protocol design, simulation-experiment comparison
Visualization & Workflows: Illustrator, ParaView, PyVista, Git
Languages: Korean (native), English (fluent)

References

Dr. Seunghwa RyuPHD ADVISOR
Head, Department of AX, KAIST
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST
Dr. Patrick C. Lee
Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
Dr. Sangryun Lee
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, Ewha Womans University