Professor

Professional Experience

• Jan 2025 - Ongoing 

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Changwon National University

Assistant Professor

• July 2023 – Dec 2024 

Oden Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

Postdoctoral Fellow (Advisor: Michael S. Sacks)

• Sep 2019 – May 2023 

Multiphysics and Computational Mechanics Lab., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

Research & Teaching Assistant

• Feb 2016 – May 2019 

SAMSUNG C&T Corporation, Seoul, S. Korea

Structural Engineer

• Mar 2014 – Feb 2016 

Computational Mechanics and Structure System (CMSS) Lab., KAIST, Daejeon, S. Korea

Research Assistant

Education

• Sep 2019 – Aug 2023 

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Solid Mechanics)

Advisor: Nikolaos Bouklas

• Sep 2019 – Aug 2022 

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Solid Mechanics)

Advisor: Nikolaos Bouklas

• Mar 2014 – Feb 2016 

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

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Ocean System Engineering Program)

Advisor: Phill-Seung Lee

• Mar 2008 – Feb 2014 

Korea University, Seoul, S. Korea

B.S. in Civil and Architectural Engineering (Civil Engineering)

Military Service: Jan 2009 – Nov 2010