Professor

Bio.

Prof. Jeong Whan Yoon is currently Professor of Mechanical Engineering at KAIST, Korea and also Research Professor of Applied Mechanics at Deakin University, Australia. He is working for high reliability design and manufacturing for lightweight materials and structures. He led Boeing-chaired manufacturing research (AusAMRC) at Swinburne University and also GM-chaired manufacturing research (ICIM) at Deakin University. He is an Associate Editor of International Journal of Plasticity and is a fellow of The Korean Academy of Science and Technology. He received “2008 International Journal of Plasticity Young Researcher Award” by Elsevier for outstanding five years contributions in the field of plasticity and also received “2023 Khan International Award” for outstanding life-long contributions in the field of plasticity primarily through research contributions in all international journals in general and International Journal of Plasticity in particular. As guest editors, he edited nine special issues at Int. J. Plasticity and two issues at Int. J. Solids & Structures. He also has diverse industry experiences including LG Electronics (Korea) for product development, MSC Software Corporation (USA) for MSC. Nastran & Marc source code development and Alcoa Technical Center (USA). He served as the chairman for the major conferences including NUMISHEET2014 held in Melbourne, Australia, APEA2018 held in Jeju island, Korea, and ICPDF2023 and ICPDF2024 held in Dominica Republic and Panama, respectively. He received his PhD at KAIST in 1997.

Professional Experiences

• KAIST (2015.11 – present) Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Korea

• Deakin University (2015.11 – present) Research Professor of Applied Mechanics, Australia

• Deakin University (2013.07 – 2015.10) Chair Professor of Applied Mechanics & Head of Advanced Manufacturing, Australia

• Swinburne University (2010.04 – 2013.06) Full Professor of Advanced Manufacturing & Research Director of Australia Advanced Manufacturing Research Center with Boeing (AusAMRC), Australia

• University of Aveiro (2013.01 – present) High Merit Scientist / Invited Professor, Appointed by the Rector, Portugal (Part time)

• Alcoa Technical Center (2003.10 – 2010.3) Sr. Staff Scientist, Leading the Projects and Development of Advanced Material Models, USA

• MSC Software Corporation (2001.6-2003.10) Senior Developer, Source Codes Development for a General Purpose Nonlinear Commercial Software, Marc & Nastran Development Group, USA

• LG Electronics (1998.4- 2001.2) Sr. Research Engineer, New Products Development, LG Production Engineering Research Center, Korea

• Alcoa Technical Center (1997.4-1998.3) Post-Doc, Development of Ideal Forming Design Code, USA

Educational Background

• 1993.3 – 1997.2 Ph.D. (1997), Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST; LG Electronics scholarship student

• 1991.3 – 1993.2 M.S. (1993), Dept. of Precision Eng. & Mechatronics, KAIST; LG Electronics scholarship student

• 1987.3 – 1991.2 B.S. (1991), Dept. of Precision Mechanical Eng., Hanyang Univ.

Award

• 2023 Khan International Award (2003), Given to an individual for outstanding life-long contributions in the field of plasticity primarily through research contributions in all international journals.

• 2008 International Journal of Plasticity Award (2008) Elsevier, Given to an individual for outstanding contributions over the most recent five year period to the field of plasticity.

• Sigma Xi best paper award-Alcoa Chapter (2006) Sigma Xi, Yoon, JW, Barlat, F, Gracio, JJ, Rauch, E., “Anisotropic strain hardening behavior in simple shear for cube textured aluminum alloy sheets”, Int. J. Plasticity, Vol.21, pp.2426-2447 (2005).

Honors

• Fellow, the Korea Academy of Science and Technology

• Associate Editor & Editorial Board, International Journal of Plasticity (IJP is the top journal in solid mechanics area with the impact factor of 8.5)

• Chairman, ICPDF 2023 (Punta Cana, Dominica Republic)

• Chairman, AEPA2018 International Conference (Jeju island, South Korea)

• Chairman, NUMISHEET 2014 International Conference (Melbourne, Australia)

Publication

• Over 300 papers in international journals and conference

• Over 12,000 Citations and H-index of 56 (Google Scholar)  / Over 9,000 Citations and H-index of 49 (Scopus)