Hansu Kim, Ph.D. (김한수)
Hansu Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Smart Factory at Gachon University in Seongnam, Korea. Prior to joining Gachon University, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. He earned his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Automotive Engineering from Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea, in February 2015 and August 2021, respectively. His research interests include design optimization, design for additive manufacturing, data-driven design, design for mobility components, and optimization algorithms for artificial neural networks.
🏛️ Academic Experience
Assistant Professor, Department of Smart Factory, Gachon University, Seongnam, Korea, March 2026–Present
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Smart Factory Major, Gachon University, Seongnam, Korea, March 2025–February 2026
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, April 2023–January 2025
- Advisor: Prof. Il Yong Kim
Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Smart Manufacturing Major, Changwon National University, Changwon, Korea, September 2022–December 2022
BK Post-Doc., BK21 Four Education & Research Program for Automotive-Software Convergence, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, September 2021–August 2022
- Advisor: Prof. Tae Hee Lee
🎓 Education
Ph.D., Department of Automotive Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, August 2021
- Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Korean Society for Design Optimization (KSDO)
- Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea
- Dissertation: Design-target-based Optimization of High-dimensional Problems using Input Variable Selection
- Advisor: Prof. Tae Hee Lee
- Committee: Prof. Kunsoo Huh, Prof. Seungjae Min, Dr. Youngsoo Choi (LLNL), and Prof. Ikjin Lee (KAIST)
B.S., Department of Automotive Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, February 2015
- Summa Cum Laude
- 1st Rank Graduate in the Department of Automotive Engineering
- Thesis: The concept of combat vehicle systems integrated performance for design optimization
- Advisors: Prof. Tae Hee Lee and Prof. Seungjae Min
🏆 Honors & Awards
Young Scientist Award, Asian Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization 2026 (ACSMO 2026), May 2026
Outstanding Presentation Award for Early Career Researchers, COSEIK 2026 Conference, April 2026
Certificate of Appreciation for Early Career Researchers, KSDO 2026 Conference, January 2026
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Outstanding Paper Award, KSME CAE & Applied Mechanics Division 2022 Spring Conference, May 2023
Outstanding Student Presentation Award, KSME CAE & Applied Mechanics Division 2021 Spring Conference, May 2022
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, Korean Society for Design Optimization (KSDO), January 2022
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, August 2021
Outstanding Student Presentation Award, KSME CAE & Applied Mechanics Division 2020 Spring Conference, August 2020
Outstanding Paper Award, KSME 2019 Conference, August 2020
Outstanding Paper Award, Transactions of the KSME A, November 2019
Grand Award, 1st Future Automobile Outstanding Paper Contest, October 2019
Best Poster Award, KSCM-GACM 2018 International Workshop, October 2018
BK21 Plus Scholarship, National Research Foundation of Korea, September 2015–August 2020
M.S. & Ph.D. Full Scholarship, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, March 2015–February 2016
Summa Cum Laude, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, February 2015
Hanyang Academic Grand Award, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 2014
Outstanding Award, 2nd Technology and Management Capstone Design CEO Camp, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, December 2013
Hanyang Academic Grand Award, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, April 2013
Hanyang Science and Technology Scholarship, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, March 2011–February 2015
🖋️ Academic Activities
Academic Director, Korean Society for Design Optimization (KSDO)
Reviewer for Peer-Reviewed Journals including:
- Big Data Research, Elsevier
- IEEE Access, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Journal of Computational Design and Engineering, Oxford University Press
- Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, Springer
- Knowledge-Based Systems, Elsevier
- Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines, Taylor & Francis
- Neurocomputing, Elsevier
- Pattern Recognition, Elsevier
- Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Springer
- Transactions of the KSME, Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (KSME)
🗣️ Invited Presentations
Design for additive manufacturing: From industrial challenges to multi-material decomposition optimization. 9th Smart Materials and Nanotechnology in Engineering and 8th Active Materials and Soft Mechatronics (Smart & Soft 2026), November 21–25, 2026, Jeju, Korea.
Decomposition optimization and multi-material design for additive manufacturing. COSEIK 2026 Conference, April 16–17, 2026, Gwangju, Korea.
Design of an additive manufactured aircraft component using topology optimization. KSDO 2026 Conference, January 14–15, 2026, Daejeon, Korea.
Design for additive manufacturing: From topology optimization toward generative AI, Department of Mechanical and Robotics Engineering, GIST, September 25, 2025, Gwangju, Korea.
🏛️ Teaching Experience
Gachon University, Seongnam, Korea, 2025–Present
- Statics (03874), Undergraduate Course
- Engineering Graphics (CAD) (14381), Undergraduate Course
- Introduction to Robotics (15068), Undergraduate Course
- Control of Intelligent Robot Systems (15767), Undergraduate Course
- P-Practical Project (60000), Undergraduate Course
- Undergraduate Research Project (13647), Undergraduate Course
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Changwon National University, Changwon, Korea, 2022
- Manufacturing Artificial Intelligence (SMA0001), Undergraduate Course
- Big Data Engineering (MNA0082), Undergraduate Course
Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, 2021
- Design and Analysis of Computational Experiments (AUE8048), Graduate Course