Professor Kyung-Soo Yang
Editor for Fluids Engineering

    Kyung-Soo Yang received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University in 1981 and The Ohio State University in 1983, respectively, and Ph.D. degree from Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University in 1989. He is full professor of Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University.

Professor Yang served as an Associate Editor for Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology since 2004. His current fields of interest include Computation of turbulent flows using Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) and Large Eddy Simulation (LES), Flow instability, Laminar-turbulent transition and Numerical Methods.

Address: School Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University, Korea
Office Phone: +82-32-860-7322
Office Fax: +82-32-868-1716
Home Page: http://tcl.inha.ac.kr
Email: ksyang@inha.ac.kr

Research Areas of Interest:
 1. Fluid Mechanics
 2. Turbulence
 3. Computational Fluid Engineering

Professor Jooho Choi
Editor for Materials and Design Engineering

    Jooho Choi was born in Seoul, Korea, in February 23, 1959. He received the B.S. degree of mechanical engineering from Hanyang University in 1981, the M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree of mechanical engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 1983 and 1987, respectively. During the year 1988, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Iowa. He joined the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at Korea Aerospace University, Korea, in 1997 and he is now Professor. During 1988-96, he worked with Samsung Corning, Suwon, Korea, where he applied CAD/CAM/CAE techniques for TV glasses development and production.

    Dr. Choi has served as a board member of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea since 2001, and is now serving as vice-president. He has also served as a program manager or advisory member in a number of governmental committees such as Korea Science and Engineering Foundation and Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy.

    Dr. Choi received Silver Prize Award in the 4th Samsung Group CAD and Super Computer User's Conference in 1993 and Excellent Paper Award from the Journal of Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea in 2002. He is now a member of several professional organizations including KSME, KSAS, SME, ASME and AIAA.

    Dr. Choi has conducted research mainly on the shape optimization methods and its application. A number of researches by the industry needs were also carried out in the design of manufacturing equipments. His current research is focused on the reliability analysis and design methods in the mechanical and aerospace systems.

Professor Long Wang
Editor for Robotics and Control

    Long Wang received his Bachelor, Master, and Doctorate degrees in Dynamics and Control from Tsinghua University and Peking University in 1986, 1989, and 1992, respectively. He has held research positions at the University of Toronto, the University of Alberta, Canada, and the German Aerospace Center, Munich, Germany. He is currently Cheung Kong Chair Professor of Dynamics and Control, Director of Center for Systems and Control of Peking University. He is also Jian-Zhi Professor of Wuhan University, and Director of Center for Intelligent Aerospace Systems, Academy for Advanced Technology, Peking University.

    He serves as Vice-Chairman of Chinese Intelligent Aerospace Systems Committee, and Executive Chairman of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Peking University. He is a panel member of the Division of Information Science, National Natural Science Foundation of China, and a member of IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Technical Committee on Networked Systems. He is in the editorial boards of Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Journal of Control Theory and Applications, etc. His research interests are in the fields of networked systems and control and bio-mimetic robotics.

Professor Dae-Eun Kim
Editor for Production Engineering and Fusion Technology

    Dae-Eun Kim received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts University in 1984. He then went on to receive his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from M.I.T. in 1986 and 1991, respectively. From 1991 to 1993 Dr. Kim was an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Ohio State University, and since 1993, he has been a faculty member at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea.

Professor Sangkwon Jeong,
Editor for Thermal and Power Engineering

    Sangkwon Jeong was born in Pusan, Korea, in August 16, 1962. He received the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from MIT in 1992. From 1992 until 1995 he was a research staff at the MIT Plasma Fusion Center. He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST in 1996, and he is currently a Professor.

    Prof. Jeong's research interests are in the areas of cryogenics, applied superconductivity, and refrigeration. His research covers fundamental issues related to applied thermodynamics and low temperature engineering, as well as various types of refrigeration, cryogenic system analysis, superconducing magnets, cryocooler design and cryogenic packaging. The research on these topics focuses on understanding the physics of the underlying phenomena and involves theoretical modeling and experimental investigations. He is currently a member of KSME, ASME, IEEE, SAREK, and KIASC. He also serves as an editorial board of SAREK and KIASC.


Address: Department of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
Office Phone: +82-42-869-3079
Office Fax : +82-42-869-8207
Home Page : http://cryo.kaist.ac.kr/
Email: skjeong@kaist.ac.kr

Research Areas of Interest:
 1. Cryogenic
 2. Applied Superconductivity
 3. Refrigeration and Low Temperature
 4. Thermodynamics
 5. Super-conducing magnets

Professor Yeon June Kang
Editor for Dynamics, Vibration, and Sound

    Yeon June Kang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical design and production engineering from Seoul National University in 1988 and 1990. He received the Ph.D. degree in Acoustics from The School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University at Indiana in 1994. Professor Kang is now a Professor of Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University.

    Professor Kang served as an Associate Editor for Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology since 2006. His current fields of interest include Vibrations, Noise, Measurement and Flow Noise.