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•  Department of Mathematics

 Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)

 77 Cheongam-Ro, Nam-Gu

 Pohang, Gyeongsangbuk, Korea 37673

           E-mail:    younjinkim at postech dot ac dot kr 

                  mathyounjinkim at gmail dot com 

Research Interest 

• • Extremal combinatorics: Extremal set theory, Extremal graph and hypergraph theory, probabilistic and algebraic methods in combinatorics, additive combinatorics.

Position

• •  2024/02 ~ Current, Collegiate Assistant Professor, POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea

  •  2023/03 ~ 2024/01, Senior Researcher, IBS ECOPRO, Daejeon, South Korea

  •  2021/12 ~ 2023/02, Postdoctoral Researcher, POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea

  • 2015/12 ~ 2021/11, Research Professor, IMS, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea

  • 2015/09 ~ 2015/11, Postdoctoral Researcher, IMS, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea

  • 2012/09 ~ 2015/08, Postdoctoral Researcher, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea

  • 2012/01 ~ 2012/05, Researcher, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA

Education

• • 2011.12 Ph.D. in Department of Mathematics at University of Illinois at Urbana and Champaign, Illinois, USA (Advisor: Zoltan Furedi)

Grant

• 2022/06 ~ 2023/02, Creative Challenge Research Program, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)

                 $ 70,000 (7천만원) for 1 years     

• • 2017/06 ~ 2022/05,  President Post-Doc Fellowship, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)

        $ 650,000 (6억 5천만원) for 5 years

• • 2013/06 ~ 2016/05, Basic research program, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)

                   $150,000 (1억 5천만원) for 3 years

Organizer

• Organizer, One day Meeting on Extremal Combinatorics 2020, Ewha Womans University, January 4,  2020.

• Organizer, 2019-1 IBS Workshop on Graph Theory, IBS, Daejeon, February 11-12, 2019.

• Organizer, One day Meeting on Extremal Combinatorics 2019, Ewha Womans University, January 5,  2019.

  • Supporting Organizer, 17th Japan-Korea Workshop on Algebra and Combinatorics, University of Tsukuba, Tokyo, Japan, Jan 28 -29, 2019

  • Supporting Organizer, 16th Korea-Japan Workshop on Algebra and Combinatorics, Yeungnam Universtiy, Korea, Feb 8-10, 2018

  • Organizer, 2018 International Workshop on Graph Theory, Ewha Womans University, January 4-7, 2018

  • Organizer, 2016 International Workshop on Graph Theory and Combinatorics, Ewha Womans University, January 28-30, 2016

  • Supporting Organizer, 14th Korea-Japan Workshop on Algebra and Combinatorics, Pusan National Universtiy, January 28-30, 2016

  • Organizer, KAIST Discrete Math Seminar, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, September 2013 - August 2014

  • Organizer, 2014 KAIST CMC Discrete Math Workshop, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, December 10-12 2014

  • Organizer, 12th Korea-Japan Workshop on Algebra and Combinatorics, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, January 23-25 2014

Award

• 2017.06.01: President Post-Doc Fellowship, June 2017- May 2022.   

     (총 수여 금액 : 6억 5천만원, by 한국연구재단)

• 2014.10.25: WISET-KMS Young Women Excellent Research Award

• Conference Travel Award for Graduate Students, October 2010 (by UIUC)

• Korea Science and Engineering Foundation fellowship, 2004/08 ~ 2006/07 

• University of Illinois Fellowship, Summer 2005, Spring 2005, Fall 2004 (by UIUC)