Team

PI

Joon Sang Kang

Assistant professor

Department of mechanical engineering, KAIST

email: jskang1@kaist.ac.kr

Google scholar

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Employment

Assistant professor, Department of mechanical engineering, KAIST, 2022 ~

Postdoc Researcher, Department of Mechanical Engineering, OSU, 2021 ~ 2022

Postdoc Researcher, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UCLA , 2020 ~ 2021

Researcher, Center for Environment, KIST, 2012 ~ 2014

Education

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, UCLA, 2019

M.S. Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, 2012

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Inha university, 2010

Honor and Award

Outstanding PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering, UCLA, 2020

Gold Winner of Graduate Student Award, Material Research Society, 2019

Northrop Grumman Fellowship, Northrop Grumman, 2018

Graduation Division Scholarship, UCLA, 2017

Reference

Yongjie Hu, Professor, Mechanical engineering department, UCLA

Joseph P. Heremans, Professor, Mechanical engineering department, OSU

Sang Soo Kim, Emeritus Professor, Mechanical engineering department, KAIST

Post doc

Graduate student (Ph.D Candidate)

이원정 (Wonjeong Lee)

email: wjlee5671@kaist.ac.kr

2023/09 ~

2020/03 ~ 2022/08: M.S in Mechanical Engineering, POSTECH

Field of Interest: Thermophysical properties of Van der Waals Material

김재훈 (Jaehoon Kim)

Google scholar

email: jhkim6143@kaist.ac.kr

2025/03 ~

2023/03 ~ 2025/02: M.S in Mechanical Engineering, KAIST

Field of Interest: Ultra-high thermal conductivity III-V materials, high-κ EMC

김주홍 (Juhong Kim)

email: juhong1@kaist.ac.kr

2025/03 ~

2023/03 ~ 2025/02: M.S in Mechanical Engineering, KAIST

Field of Interest: Thermophysical properties in cryogenic system, SSTR, MEMS

이동욱 (Dongwook Lee)

email: dwlee@kaist.ac.kr

2025/03 ~

2023/03 ~ 2025/02: M.S in Mechanical Engineering, KAIST

Field of Interest: TDTR, Thermophysical properties

강형욱 (Lab Leader) (Hyeong Uk Kang)

email: tongbol0619@kaist.ac.kr

2026/03 ~

2024/03 ~ 2026/02: M.S in Mechanical Engineering, KAIST

Field of Interest: Thermophysical properties in cryogenic-magnetic system

김동규 (Dong Kyu Kim)

email: dongkyukim@kaist.ac.kr

2026/03 ~

2024/03 ~ 2026/02: M.S in Mechanical Engineering, KAIST

Field of Interest: Thermoelectric, spin caloritronics

Graduate student (MS Candidate)

김동훈 (Donghun Kim)

email: gazicola@kaist.ac.kr

2025/09~

Field of Interest: Computational Physics

손동군 (Dong Gun Son)

email: rabbit3386@kaist.ac.kr

2026/03~

이성호 (Sungho Lee)

email: tony4816@kaist.ac.kr

2026/03~

정훈훈 (Hun Hun Jung)

email: jung2hun@kaist.ac.kr

2026/03~

정기현 (Gihyeon Jeong)

Google scholar

email: gus6945@kaist.ac.kr

2023/09~2026/08: Lab Intern

2026/09~

Field of Interest: Thermal management system utilizing oscillating liquid metal

Undergraduate student

김가은 (Gaeun Kim)

email: 130kke@naver.com

2025/12~

김서영 (Seoyoung Kim)

email: hicaru05@kaist.ac.kr

2026/03~

Alumni

이윤재 (Younjae Lee)

2023/09~2025/08(M.S)

삼성전자 DS (Present)

김동민 (Dong-Min Kim)

Google scholar

2024/03~2025/08(Post doc)

MIT (Present)

Field of Interest: Thermal properties characterization, Plasmon thermal conductivity, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

김민수 (Minsoo Kim)

2024/03~2026/02

삼성전자 DS (Present)

김재현 (Jae Hyun Kim)

2024/03~2026/02

한화 시스템 (Present)

이상민 (Sang Min Lee)

email: tlseo963@kaist.ac.kr

2024/09~2026/08

삼성전자 DS (Present)