Principal investigator

SeungYeon Kang

SeungYeon Kang

Education

 

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 2008

Ph.D. Applied Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 2014

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 2017-2019

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Chemical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 2019-2020

Positions and Honors

 

2014-2017: Samsung SDI Research and Development, Suwon, South Korea
2019-2020: NSF SHAP3D UCONN site program manager, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
2021 – current:

  • Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
  • Affiliated faculty with the Center for Clean Energy Engineering (C2E2), Institute of Materials Science (IMS), NSF SHAP3D Additive Manufacturing Center, Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) and Pratt & Whitney Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering (IASE) at UConn

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    Recipient of:

  • Phase II award for Department of Energy (DOE) Innovating Distributed Embedded Energy Prize (InDEEP) (2024)
  • UConn Faculty/Staff MVP for academic year 2023-2024
  • Phase I award for Department of Energy (DOE) Innovating Distributed Embedded Energy Prize (InDEEP) (2023)
  • Best Student Paper Award at SPIE Photonics West, Laser Applications in Microelectronic and Optoelectronic Manufacturing (LAMOM) XXIV, San Francisco, CA (2019)
  • Princeton Postdoctoral Fellowship in scientific writing
  • Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) research Fellowship
  • Samsung SDI Scholarship