Hyeonjin Kim, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering, Inha University, Incheon, Korea

Office: Room 508 Hitech Center, Inha University, 100 Inha-Ro, Michuhol-Gu, Incheon, 22212, South Korea

Tel: 032-860-7358

Email: jin(dot)kim(at)inha(dot)ac(dot)kr

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Inha University, 2026-present
Postdoctoral Researcher, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2025-2026
Ph.D. Intern, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2024-2025
Distribution Grid Analytics Intern, Electric Power Research Institute, 2023-2024
Research Assistant, FREEDM Systems Center, North Carolina State University, 2021-2025

Education

Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, 2025
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Konkuk University, 2019

Activities

Secretary, IEEE PES Task Force on Power System Synthetic Data Generation and Sharing, 2026-present

Bio

Hyeonjin Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Inha University. Prior to joining Inha University, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Optimization and Control Group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, WA, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University, NC, USA, where he worked under the supervision of Dr. Ning Lu. He earned his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea. His research focuses on optimization, control, and data-driven modeling for power and energy systems.