InnoCORE Project, Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), Korea / 2025 – Present
· National flagship program (~$25 M USD over 4.5 years) to advance AI-driven manufacturing and foster postdoctoral researchers across Korea’s four Institutes of Science and Technology (KAIST, GIST, DGIST, UNIST).
· Led the proposal development and conceptual design of an LLM-based autonomous manufacturing framework integrating materials, structure, and processing, under the leadership of my advisor’s lab, which serves as the lead institution of the project.
· Developing LLM-driven methods for materials design, structural optimization, and process parameter tuning.
National Agenda Basic Research Program, MSIT, Korea / 2025 – Present
· Three-year national research project (~$150 K USD per year) focused on developing domain-specialized LLMs to enhance productivity in advanced manufacturing.
· Contributing to the development of core LLM frameworks and application technologies enabling intelligent, domain-aware automation in smart manufacturing workflows.