Prof. Jeung Ku Kang
KAIST Chair Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Professor, Graduate School of EEWS
Director of BK21 PLUS Program
Office
#A513 Graduate School of EEWS, KI B/D (E4)
#3305 Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering,
Applied Engineering B/D (W1)
KAIST 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Korea 305-338

Education
Seoul National University: B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering (1992)
Stanford University: M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering (1999)
Stanford University: Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering (2002)
Ph. D. Thesis: Development of the KMLYP density functional theory method,
and application of quantum chemistry in modeling surface chemical reactions
Career
California Institute of Technology: Post Doctor (2003)
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology: Assistant/Associate Professor (2003 ~ 2012)
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology: Full Professor (2012 ~ )
Director of National Research Laboratory (NRL) (2007 ~ 2012)
KAIST Institute for the Nanocentury (KINC) : Affiliate Professor (2005 ~ )
Committee of Convergence Security Technology Center (2007 ~ )
Director of World Class University (WCU) Program (2008 ~ 2013)
University Senate (2011 ~ 2013)
Head of Graduate School of EEWS (2009 ~ 2014)
Dean of Plan & Budget Officer & Interim CFO at KAIST(2011 ~ 2013)
Society
Member of AVS (1997~2003)
Member of AICHE (1997~2003)
Member of MRS (1997~2003)
Member of Nanotechnology (1999~2003)
Advisory Committee of International Conference of Computational Modeling and Simulation of Materials (2003)
Advisory Committee of CIMTEC (2003)
Organizer of Korea/England Hydrogen Storage Workshop (2005)
Editorial Board of Electronic Materials Letters (2005)
Editorial Board of The Korea Society for Energy Engineering (2006)
Organizer of 2006 MRS Fall Meeting (2006)
Organizer of 2007 MRS Fall Meeting (2007)
Member for The Korean Academy of Science and Technology (2007 ~ )
Awards
찰스 포우웰 펠로우쉽 (1997~1999)
대전지역 차세대 Young Leader, 중앙일보·한국행정학회 (2005. 02.)
국가연구개발 우수성과, 과학기술부 (2007. 10.)
제11회 젊은 과학자상 수상, 과학기술부, 한국과학기술한림원 (2008. 02.)
기초연구 우수성과 ,교육과학기술부 (2010. 10.)
KAIST 석좌교수, 한국과학기술원 (2011. 05.)
교원 장기근속 표창, 한국과학기술원 (2013. 02.)
연구상(우수교원 포상), 한국과학기술원 (2015. 02.)
국가연구개발 우수성과, 미래창조과학부 (2016. 07)