CURRICULUM VITAE

Name
 

In Seok Kang
 

Date of Birth
 

January 2, 1956
 

Marital Status
 

Married AND has 3 daughters and 1 son
 

Present Position

Professor

 

Department of Chemical Engineering/Division of Mechanical Engineering

 

Pohang University of Science and Technology
 

Address

San 31, Hyoja-dong, Nam-gu, Pohang, 790-784

 

Republic of Korea

 

(Tel) +82-54-279-2273

 

(Fax) +82-54-279-2699

 

(email) iskang@postech.ac.kr
 

Major Field
 

Transport Phenomena and Applied Mathematics
 

Education

 

     Ph.D.

Chemical Engineering and Applied Mathematics (Minor), 1988

 

California Institute of Technology (CALTECH)

     M.S.

Chemical Engineering, 1980

 

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

     B.S.

Chemical Engineering, 1978

 

Seoul National University, Korea
 

Professional Experience

     Jan.1980-Aug.1983

    Research Engineer

 

    Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)

     Sep.1983-Jan.1988

    Research/Teaching Assistant

 

    California Institute of Technology

     Aug.1985-Aug.1985

    Graduate Researcher

 

    Boeing Supercomputer Summer Institute

     Feb.1988-Jan.1989

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow

 

    California Institute of Technology

     Jan.1989-Mar.1993

    Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering

 

    Pohang University of Science and Technology

     Jan.1990-Feb.1990

    Visiting Researcher

 

    University of California, Santa Barbara

     Aug.1996-Aug.1997

    Visiting Scholar and Lecturer

 

    University of California, Irvine

     Apr.1993-Feb.1999

    Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering

 

    Pohang University of Science and Technology 

     Mar.1999-Present

    Professor in Chemical Engineering

 

    Pohang University of Science and Technology 

     Sept.2008-Present

    Adjunct Professor of Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology

 

    Pohang University of Science and Technology 

     Sept.2007-Aug.2009

    Visition Scholor

 

    Harvard University 

     Sept.2003-Aug.2007

    Dean of Student Affairs and Admissions

 

    Pohang University of Science and Technology 

     Mar.2001-Feb.2002

    Director of POSTECH Times

     Sept.2003-Feb.2004

    Director of POSTECH Times

     Sept.2002-Aug.2003

    Director of Center for Teaching and Learning

 

    Pohang University of Science and Technology
 

Honors

 

1. Graduated from Seoul National University summa cum laude (1978)

2. NSF fellowship to Boeing Supercomputer Summer Institute (August, 1985)

3. Best Teacher Awards of Pohang University of Science and Tehnology (POSTECH)

4. Best Paper Prize of the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies (KOSFST) (September, 1996; Pulsatile Flows in Stenosed Blood Vessels)

 

Current Research Interests

1.   Micro/Nanofluidics

Electrokinetics, Electrowetting, Electrically driven droplets as sub-nanoliter reactors

2.   Applied Mathematics

Inverse problems for optimal design of micro/nano systems

Computational Green Sciences: Numerical analyses of Fuel cells & Carbon dioxide minimization processes

Publications

Refer to the site www.postech.ac.kr/ce/cfd

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