Byunggi Kim, PhD
Assistant Professor
Fushinobu Energy Phenomena Laboratory,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
School of Engineering,
Institute of Science Tokyo
Work Experiences
2024- Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Science Tokyo (April ~ September, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
2021-2024 Project Research Associate, Nomura lab., Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
2017-2021 Post-doctoral Researcher, PEM lab., Department of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST
Education
2014-2017 PhD, Department of Mechanical and Control Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2015 Visiting Research Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stony Brook University
2013-2014 Master, Department of Mechanical and Control Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2009-2013 Bachelor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Funding Acquisitions
2025.4-2026.3 (PI) Research grant, Takahashi Industrial and Economic Research Foundation (高橋産業経済研究財団)
2025.4-2027.3 (PI) Research grant, The Asahi Glass Foundation (旭硝子財団)
2025.4-2028.3 (PI) Grant in Aid for Scientific Research (B) (基盤研究B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (日本学術振興会)
2025.4-2029.3 (Co-I) Grant in Aid for Scientific Research (B) (基盤研究B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (日本学術振興会)
2025.1-2029.12 (PI) KeyTECH (International collaborative research), Korea Institute of Industrial Technology
2025.4-2026.3 (PI) Research grant, ENEOS TONENGENERAL RESEARCH/DEVELOPMENT ENCOURAGEMENT & SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
(ENEOS東燃ゼネラル研究奨励・奨学会)
2025.1-2026.12 (PI) Research grant, Research Foundation for Opto-Science and Technology (光科学技術研究振興財団, 浜松ホトニクス)
2024.12-2026.12 (PI) Research grant, Hirose Foundation (ヒロセ財団, ヒロセ電機)
2024.10 (PI) Incentive for Assistant Professor, Institute of Science Tokyo
2024.10 (Co-I) ASPIRE seed funding 2024, Institute of Science Tokyo
2024.5-2027.4 (Co-l) Basic Research Laboratory, National Research Foundation of Korea
2023.4-2025.3 (PI) Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (若手研究), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (日本学術振興会)
2023.1-2023.12 (PI) The Industrial Technology R&D Program International Joint R&D, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology
2022.10-2025.3 (PI) Research and development grand for young scientists, The AMADA foundation
2017.10-2018.9 (PI) Global Center for Open Research with Enterprise (G-CORE), KAIST
2015.4-2017.3 (PI) Research Fellowships for Young Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Awards and Honors
2025 Best Poster Presentation Award, Phononics 2025
2024 Best presentation award, The 8th Phonon Engineering Workshop, JSAP (応用物理学会)
2023 Best presentation award, The 7th Phonon Engineering Workshop, JSAP (応用物理学会)
2022 Best Paper Award, The 9th International Conference of Asian Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology
2022 Bronze prize, Expertise group, The 7th KSME-SEMES open innovation challenge
2021 The Best paper award, 2021 Next generation lithography conference
2017 Academic Contribution Award (日本伝熱学会賞), The Heat Transfer Society of Japan
2015 JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (学術振興会 特別研究員DC1), The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2015 The Miura Award (三浦賞), The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (日本機械学会)
2015 Best poster presentation award, The 6th Sections Joint Meeting of The Korean Scientists and Engineers Association in Japan
Four scholarship acquisitions including "Japan-Korea Joint Government Scholarship Program for the Students in Science and Engineering Departments (한일공동이공계 학부유학생, 日韓共同理工系学部国費留学生)"
Other activities
2025 広報委員会 Public relations committee - 日本伝熱学会 Heat Transfer Society of Japan
2025 実行委員会 Organizing committee - 第62回 日本伝熱シンポジウム/HTSJ 国際伝熱シンポジウム
The 62nd National Heat Tranfer Symposium of Japan / HTSJ International Heat Transfer Symposium
2024 Symposium organizer - Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC 2024)
2018 Executive committee - The 29th International Symposium on Transport Phenomen
Professional memberships
Regular member, Japan Society of Applied Physics (2022 ~ current)
Regular member, Optical Society of Korea (Mar 2020 ~ current)
Regular member, Korean Society for Precision Engineering (May 2017 ~ current)
Regular member, Korean Society of Laser Processing (May 2017 ~ current)
Regular member, Heat Transfer Society of Japan (April 2017 ~ March 2019, April 2024 ~)