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[2024-07-22]

AI can help monitor ion concentration (not just solution conductivity!) during electrochemical desalination.

If you are interested, please check our latest paper, which has just been published in Water Research.


[2024-05-29]

Is a water treatment AI panacea possible?

Our answer is "may not exist yet and understanding data types is more crucial than selecting (or building) appropriate AI models".

If you are interested, please check our latest paper just been published in Desalination.


[2024-04-27]

Machine learning can obviously be used to investigate membrane processes such as osmotically assisted reverse osmosis! 

If interested, please see our new paper officially published in the Desalination! (Open Access)

Thanks for the excellent collaboration with Dr. Chae and Dr. Hong's group at KIST, Korea!


[2024-02-20]

Changmin and Sueryun have joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher and researcher!

Also, Nahyeon will soon be starting her Ph.D. journey here on the team. 

Welcome, and congrats to everyone!

[2023-10-28]

Our new paper describing the machine learning approaches for clustering and estimating rate constants of micropollutants is now officially published in the npj Clean Water! 

Thanks for the excellent collaboration with Dr. Hong's group at KIST, Korea!


[2023-07-24]

Our new paper describing the robust and fouling-resistant ultrathin membranes for water purification tailored via semi-dissolved electrospun nanofibers is now officially published in the Journal of Cleaner Production! 

Thanks for the excellent collaboration with Prof. Choi's group at GIST, Korea!


[2023-07-04]

Nahyeon has joined the group as a postmaster researcher! Welcome aboard!

[2023-06-20]

Our new paper describing the energy storage capability of seawater batteries for intermittent power generation systems is now officially published in the Journal of Power Sources

This paper demonstrated that AI can help store intermittent renewable energy in a seawater battery, an emerging energy storage device!

[2023-05-16]

Our new paper describing the explainable deep learning model for membrane capacitive deionization is now officially published in Desalination! 

Thanks for the excellent collaboration with Prof. Cho's group at UNIST, Korea!

[2023-04-19]

Our new paper describing the comparison of tree-based model with deep learning model for capacitive deionization is now officially published in Desalination! 

Thanks for the excellent collaboration with Prof. Park's group at PKNU, Korea!

[2023-04-03]

Hoo has joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher! Welcome aboard!

[2023-03-02]

There was a farewell meeting for Sanghun and Nakyung. Sanghun is joining Pukyong National University as an Assistant Professor and Nakyung is joining Johns Hopkins University as a Ph.D. student. We are glad to see their excellent achievements. You will be missed so much~!


On the same day, Byeongwook has joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher! Welcome aboard!


[2023-02-22]

How do you (ChatGPT) know me?

Not 100% correct but very impressive result!

[2022-12-27]

Our new paper describing the opportunities and challenges of machine learning in bioprocesses is now officially published in Bioresource Technology! 

Thanks for the excellent collaboration with Dr. Chung's group at KIST, Korea!

[2022-11-07]

Our new paper describing the automation of an electrochemical process using reinforcement learning is now officially published in Water Research! 

Congrats Nakyung and thanks for the excellent collaboration with Prof. Cho's group at UNIST, Korea!

[2022-10-04]

Our new paper introducing an open-source deep learning model for predicting effluent concentration in capacitive deionization is now officially published in Science of The Total Environment! 

[2022-09-30]

The first experiment with new Ph.D. students! (left to right: Bethwel, Zahid, and Moon)

[2022-09-13]

Our new paper introducing deep reinforcement learning to optimize a membrane process is now officially published in Chemosphere! 

Congrats Sanghun and thanks for the excellent collaboration with Prof. Cho's group at UNIST, Korea!

[2022-09-01]

Zahid and Bethwel have joined the group as Ph.D. students! Welcome aboard!

[2022-07-13]

Finally got an invitation from OpenAI's Dall-E and these awesome images are what it generated for me when I typed "generating electrical energy from seawater". What an amazing AI tool to draw what you are thinking!

[2022-06-21]

For students starting their studies in September, we have installed two more computers! These are i9-12900K+RTX3090 for environmental-AI modeling.

[2022-05-24]

Our new paper introducing a membrane capacitive deionization model including fouling indexes is now officially published in Desalination! 

Congrats Nakyung and thanks for the excellent collaboration with Prof. Cho's group at UNIST, Korea!

[2022-03-25]

Our new paper employing sodium intercalation cathode to water desalination by seawater battery is now officially published in Desalination!

[2022-03-24]

In the evening, we climbed the mountain (or hill) behind the KIST and looked around the city of Seoul.

[2022-03-07]

Sanghun has joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher! Welcome aboard!

[2022-03-01]

Moon started his new role as an Assistant Professor at KIST (University of Science and Technology, KIST-School, Division of Energy and Environment Technology).

[2022-02-21]

We have installed a new computer for AI modeling! We now have three computers with i9-11900K+RTX3090 in the lab!

[2022-01-01]

Nakyung has joined the group as a researcher! Welcome aboard!

[2021-12-31]

A water-energy nexus picture drawn by AI (AI: GauGAN2 Beta, text: Water-Energy Nexus)

[2021-08-01]    The Son research group is officially started at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology!

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