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Dr. Kyung Tae Kim (KTK) currently serves as the Principal Researcher and Head of Department of 3D printing materials in Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS). Since 2016, he has held the position of Adjunct Professor at Hanyang University (ERICA). Additionally, Dr. Kim is the Research Director for the Thermoelectric Research Center for Waste Heat Recovery, a project funded by the Korea Ministry of Science and ICT.
Dr. Kim received PhD degree in 2006 from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in South Korea. Following his doctoral studies, he became a senior researcher in Flexible Device Lab at SAMSUNG Electronics in South Korea. Concurrently, he served as a post-doctoral researcher in the field of complex materials at Leibniz-IFW Dresden in Germany.
Dr.Kim’s research focuses on powder metallurgy-based Metal 3D printing, thermoelectric materials, energetic aluminum particles and metal matrix nanocomposites.

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Dr. J.H. Kim has been serving as a Professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at Hanbat National University since 2014. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Korea University (www.korea.ac.kr) before pursuing both his Master's and Ph.D. degrees at POSTECH (www.postech.ac.kr).

His career began in the 'Special Alloys Group' at the Korea Institute of Materials Science, where he remained from 2005 to 2014. During his tenure, he expanded his expertise through roles at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the USA and as a visiting researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Dr. Kim's research focuses on the bonding and joining of dissimilar materials, such as metals, polymers, and ceramics. Additionally, he is interested in microstructure design and tuning of structural metallic materials, including titanium and nickel alloys, for applications in power generators, aerospace, and bioengineering. He is also involved in research on nano-oxide particles in oxide dispersion strengthened steels, owing to their exceptional thermal stability and irradiation resistance. Dr. Kim confronts the inherent complexities of material processing, where defects are prevalent and interface effects play a crucial role, particularly as structural dimensions extend up to meter length scales. These challenges serve as a driving force in his work.

Dr. Kim is an active member of various professional organizations, including the Korean Institute of Metals and Materials, The Korean Society For Technology of Plasticity, the Korean Nuclear Society, the Korean Powder Metallurgy Institute, and TMS (Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society). He has authored over 140 publications, led approximately 50 research projects, and contributed to the filing of over 30 patents.

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Seok-Jae Lee is a Professor of the Department of Advanced Materials Engineering at Jeonbuk National University, He received his B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Yonsei University in 2002, and his Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering from Yonsei University in 2007. From 2008 to 2010 he worked at the Advanced Steel Processing & Products Research Center as a Research Associate. Before joining Joenbuk National University in 2012, he was a Research Assistant Professor in the Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology at POSTECH. He has interests in intelligent design of various materials and processes through modeling prediction and experimental verification. He has been the director of the Intelligent Materials Design Laboratory (http://imdl.jbnu.ac.kr) since 2012 and made over 150 peer-reviewed research papers.

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Hyunseok Oh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW). Prior to joining UW, he served as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned both his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Seoul National University in South Korea. During his Ph.D. studies, he was also a visiting student in the Microstructure Physics and Alloy Design Department at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Germany. Hyunseok was recently honored with the US-Department of Energy Early Career Research Award and US-National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2023.

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Seungkyun Yim, Ph.D., is a specially appointed assistant professor at the Additive Manufacturing Innovation Center, Tohoku University. He earned his B.E. and M.E. degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from Chonbuk National University in 2017 and 2019, respectively. In 2022, he completed his Ph.D. in Materials Processing at Tohoku University. Following his Ph.D., Prof. Yim served as a specially appointed assistant professor at the Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, until 2023. His research focuses on developing a digital twin framework for additive manufacturing, leveraging in-situ observation and multi-scale simulations. In the field of additive manufacturing, his research focuses on physical metallurgy and site-specific microstructure and mechanical property control for a wide range of engineering materials through process optimization. Additionally, he leverages machine learning techniques to further enhance additive manufacturing processes.

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Dr. Hyunjoo Choi is Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Kookmin University (KMU). She earned her Ph.D. from the Dept. of Metallurgical Engineering at Yonsei University (2010). Before she came to KMU, Dr. Choi was a postdoctoral researcher in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her B.S. (2005) from the Dept. of Metallurgical Engineering at Yonsei University. She is developing high strength lightweight metallic materials, including aluminum matrix composites, high-entropy alloys, nano-structured metals, and additive-manufactured metals. She is also keen on studying the process-structure-properties (PSP) linkage, particularly focusing on deformation mechanics of metallic materials.

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Professor Moataz Attallah holds a chair in advanced materials processing at the School of Metallurgy and Materials University of Birmingham. His research focuses on developing a metallurgical understanding of the material-process interaction in additive manufacturing of metallic materials focusing on the process impact on the microstructure and structural integrity development. His research is conducted through research partnerships with various companies in the aerospace, defence, medical, space, and nuclear energy sectors. He co-authored over 200 journal and conference papers, 3 book chapters, and is a co-inventor on 5 patents.

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Prof. Kwi-Il Park is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering at Kyungpook National University. Prof. Park received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He was previously a senior researcher at Korea Agency for Defense Development from 2014 to 2015 and a faculty member at Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology from 2015 to 2018. His research interests include the synthesis of high-performance piezoelectric/thermoelectric nanomaterials and development of flexible/stretchable energy harvester based on organic/inorganic materials

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Prof. MinHo Yang is a professor in the Department of Energy Engineering at Dankook University (DKU). He received his Ph.D. from Graduate school of Nanoscience and Technology at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Before he came to DKU, he was a postdoctoral researcher in National NanoFab Center at KAIST from 2015 to 2016 and in Department of Materials Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2016 to 2017. His research interests lie in the area of materials for energy storage and development of post Li-ion batteries.

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Dr Sing Swee Leong is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. Prior to joining NUS, he was a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Singapore Centre for 3D Printing, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, after receiving the prestigious fellowship in 2020. His research interests are enabling material development while creating strategic and sustainable values for Industry 4.0 and beyond through the use and integration of advanced manufacturing. Swee Leong was named a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate in 2023 and 2022. In 2022, he was also awarded the Young Professional Award by ASTM International for his work in additive manufacturing and contribution in standard development for the field. Swee Leong received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering (with topic in Additive Manufacturing) from NTU, Singapore in 2016.

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Prof. Pawel Zieba - (born 1956) is the former head of the Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2011-2019). His PhD and DSc he obtained at the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1987 and 1997, respectively. He received full professor scientific title in 2003. In 1991-92 he was British Council Fellow at Manchester Materials Science Centre and then in 1997-2001 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Max-Planck Institute für Metallforschung and Institut für Metallkunde der Stuttgart Universität. In the years 2011-2015 he served as the Executive Committee member for the Federation of European Materials Societies

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Young-Kyun Kim is currently a senior researcher at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS). He earned his PhD in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Inha University in 2021. Dr. Kim’s primary research focuses on developing metallic materials capable of withstanding extremely low temperatures (down to 4 K) and establishing testing methods to evaluate their physical properties under deep cryogenic conditions. He has made good contributions to the field and has authored/coauthored over 90 papers on metallic materials.

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Empolyment
Senior Researcher (Sep. 2023 – Present)
Center for Advanced Materials & Processing, Institute for Advanced Engineering

Education
Kookmin University, Seoul, Rep. of Korea
Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering (Mar. 2020 – Aug. 2023)
Thesis: The strategies for improving soft magnetic properties of iron-based amorphous powders

Kookmin University, Seoul, Rep. of Korea
M.S., Convergence Design and Technology (Mar. 2018 – Feb. 2020)
Thesis: Multi layer aluminum/carbon fiber composites for wide band EMI shielding

Kookmin University, Seoul, Rep. of Korea
B.S., Materials Science and Engineering (Mar. 2016 – Feb. 2018)

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Dr. Jeong Min Park is currently working at Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS). He received PhD degree in 2021 on process-structure-property relationship of additively manufactured metallic materials from the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). After that, he joined as the senior researcher at Department of 3D Printing Materials, KIMS. Since 2024, he has held the position as an Adjunct Professor in Department of Future Convergence Materials at Korea University in Republic of Korea.
Dr. Park’s research is focused on additive manufacturing, microstructure control, mechanical behaviors, and hetero-structuring of metallic materials. He is author and co-authors of more than 60 peer-reviewed papers in the area of additive manufacturing and metallic materials. He has a special interest in non-conventional materials such as high-entropy alloys. He has professional skills of material characterization to explore relationship between microstructure and properties in a wide range of metallic materials.
Google Scholar : https://scholar.google.co.kr/citations?user=gMeEgW4AAAAJ&hl=ko

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Tae Joo Park received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 2002 and 2008, respectively. His research at Seoul National University covered electrical and chemical characterizations of advanced gate stacks with metal gate/high-k/high-mobility channel and nonvolatile memory applications and thin film growth using atomic layer deposition. From 2008 to 2010, he was a research scientist with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, where he was engaged in advanced nanoelectronic devices based on organic/inorganic thin films, graphene layer growth, and in situ XPS analysis of thin films. Since 2011, he has been an Assistant Professor with Hanyang University, Seoul. He has published more than 170 papers in technical journals with more than 300 presentations in international conferences. His research interests include energy storage systems and nanoelectronic devices

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Prof. Jae Wung Bae is an Assistant professor in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering at Pukyong National University. Prof. Bae received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in 2019. He was previously a post-doctoral researcher, both at POSTECH and Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Germany. Prof. Bae’s research interests are centered around mechanism-based design and characterization in hydrogen-rich/low-temperature environment, with a particular focus on the optimization of structure-property relationships in metallic materials.

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Se-Eun Shin has been a Professor in Advanced Materials Engineering at the Sunchon National University since 2017. She was a postdoctoral associate at the University of Tokyo from 2016 to 2017 after graduating from Yonsei University in 2016. Her group has contributed actively to the design and development of metal-matrix composites containing nano-carbons in the light metal matrix and the studies on the relationship between mechanical behavior and microstructures.

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Prof. Seok Su Sohn is a distinguished figure in the field of Materials Science and Engineering, currently holding the position of Associate Professor at Korea University. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, he leads the Future Convergence Materials division, where he oversees cutting-edge research and development projects.
Prof. Sohn embarked on his academic journey at the prestigious Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in South Korea, where he was awarded a PhD in 2010. After completing his PhD, Prof. Sohn furthered his research as a post-doctoral researcher, both at POSTECH and the renowned Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Germany.
The core of Professor Sohn's research lies in the domain of alloy design, particularly focusing on materials that can withstand extreme environments. His work encompasses structural steels, high-entropy alloys, and aluminum alloys, with specific applications in hydrogen and cryogenic environments.

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Professor Lee is currently an associate professor in the Department of Advanced Materials Engineering for Information & Electronics at Kyung Hee University.
He received his Ph.D. degree from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2016, after which he conducted research on rare metals at the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology.
Professor Lee's research focuses on powder bed fusion processes using metal powders and rapid sintering processes for nanocomposite materials.

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Dr. Seungki Jo is a Senior Researcher in Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS). He received Ph.D degree in 2020 from School of Materials Science and Engineering of Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology. After post-doctoral training at Yonsei University, he joined KIMS in 2021. His current research focuses on Bi2Te3-based thermoelectric materials and their practical applications with new processing techniques.

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Prof. Byung Joon Choi received Ph.D. degree from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 2009. Since then he worked at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, as a Postdoctoral Researcher. In 2011, he joined Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA. He has been an Assistant/Associate/Full Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology (Seoultech) since 2013. His research fields are development of thin film processes majorly including atomic layer deposition technique applying for electronic memory. Recently, he is working on the nano-coating of powder materials applying for the thermoelectrics and super alloys.