Thank you for stopping by! I am Junyoung Kim, an assistant professor at the department of mechanical engineering at Kumoh National Institute of Technology (KIT). Before joining KIT, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Advanced Buildings Equipment Research Group of National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and worked with Dr. Nelson James to develop electrochemical and high-temperature heat pumps. I received my PhD degree at Purdue, where I worked with Prof. James E. Braun and Prof. Davide Ziviani at Ray W. Herrick Laboratories in mechanical engineering. Before my PhD, I worked at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in Korea, and received my MS degree at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

I am interested in diverse engineering problems of thermodynamic systems, including cooling and heating systems, energy and building technologies, and energy conversion devices.  I like to use both experimental and computational methods to design and analysis of thermal systems.