Kyunghoon "K" Lee

Academic Appointments

Jointly affiliated with Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH) (March 2025 to February 2026)  

Vice Dean of Graduate School (May 2024 to Present)

Professor (March 2014 to Present)

• • • Department of Aerospace Engineering, PNU

    • Tel: +82 51 510 3101

    • Office: Room 9215, Engineering Building 9, 2 Busandaehak-ro 63beon-gil, Geumjeong-gu, Busan, 46241

Research Scientist (February 2011 to February 2014)

• • SUTD-MIT International Design Centre (IDC), Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

  • Jointly affiliated with SUTD and MIT

  • Principal Investigators: Professors Karen E. Willcox and Anthony T. Patera

  • Research topic: Certified reduced basis application in a real-time, in situ context

Postdoctoral Fellow (June 2010 to February 2011)

• • Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL), Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Principal Investigator: Professor Dimitri N. Mavris

  • Research topic: Reduced order modeling of numerical propulsion system simulation for truss-braced wing (TBW) aircraft conceptual study

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

• • Ph.D., School of Aerospace Engineering, August 2010

    • Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL)

    • Thesis: Investigation of probabilistic principal component analysis compared to proper orthogonal decomposition methods for basis extraction and missing data estimation

    • Adviser: Professor Dimitri N. Mavris

  • M.S., School of Aerospace Engineering, December 2004

    • Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL)

    • Adviser: Professor Dimitri N. Mavris

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea

• • M.S. (Discontinued August 2002), Division of Aerospace Engineering

    • Adviser: Professor Jang-Hyuk Kwon

Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea

• • B.S., Department of Aerospace Engineering, February 2001

Awards

2025년 최적설계학회 우수학위논문상(박사) : 강신성

2024년 하반기 부산대 공과대학 우수연구자상

2024년 최적설계학회 우수학위논문상(석사) : 강다영

2023년 하반기 부산대 공과대학 우수연구자상

2022년 대학기계학회논문집A 최우수논문상

2021년 KAI 항공우주논문상 장려상 : 김봉석

Former Students

강신성(PhD) : KAI, South Korea

김봉석(MS) : PhD program at Purdue University, USA (received offers from Georgia Tech as well as University of Maryland)

강다영(MS) : PhD program at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA  (received offers from University of Maryland)

손경호(MS) : DN Solutions, South Korea

Triet Pham(MS) : Akselos, Vietnam

김슬기(MS) : PhD program at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA