Principal Investigator
Professor Yang-Ki Hong, E. A. “Larry” Drummond Endowed Chair
B.S., Physics, Yonsei University
M.S., Physics, Yonsei University Ph.D., Metallurgy, University of Utah Program of Management Development (PMD), Harvard University Dr. Yang-Ki Hong is the E. A. “Larry” Drummond Endowed Chair and Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at The University of Alabama. He serves as the director of NSF IUCRC-UA: Center for Efficient Vehicles and Sustainable Transportation Systems. He received BS and MS (Condensed matter physics: Magnetism) in Physics from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, and his Ph.D. in metallurgy from the University of Utah in 1981. He graduated from the Program of Management Development (PMD), Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, Boston, MA, in 1994. |
Before joining the University of Alabama as the Endowed Chair Professor in 2006, he was a professor of Materials Science & Engineering and an adjunct professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Idaho, and Sr. Vice President of the R&D Division of OCI Company, Ltd., Seoul, South Korea.
Dr. Hong’s research focuses on electromagnetics, computational materials science, and their applications to rare-earth-free permanent for electric motors for electric vehicles, nanocrystalline soft magnets for power electronics, 5G/6G antennas for telematics, and EMI in the 5G/6G frequency range. He has published more than 180 refereed journal articles, presented more than 250 peer-reviewed abstracts at International Conferences and Symposia, and delivered several plenaries, keynotes, invited papers, and more than 160 invited seminars. He holds 25 US and 9 Korea Patents. His research sponsors include NSF, DoE, NASA, DoD, and private sector companies, including Qualcomm, Samsung, LG, Seagate, Toyota, Hyundai Motor, and Mercedes-Benz.
Dr. Hong served on the program committee of the IEEE International Magnetics Conference (InterMAG) and International Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM, AIP) and chaired many sessions of these conferences. He was the publication committee chair for the IEEE International Conference on Microwave Magnetics 2016 and a member of the technical committee of the IEEE Magnetics Society (2012 -2017). He is a senior editorial board member of IEEE Magnetics Letters.
Dr. Hong’s research focuses on electromagnetics, computational materials science, and their applications to rare-earth-free permanent for electric motors for electric vehicles, nanocrystalline soft magnets for power electronics, 5G/6G antennas for telematics, and EMI in the 5G/6G frequency range. He has published more than 180 refereed journal articles, presented more than 250 peer-reviewed abstracts at International Conferences and Symposia, and delivered several plenaries, keynotes, invited papers, and more than 160 invited seminars. He holds 25 US and 9 Korea Patents. His research sponsors include NSF, DoE, NASA, DoD, and private sector companies, including Qualcomm, Samsung, LG, Seagate, Toyota, Hyundai Motor, and Mercedes-Benz.
Dr. Hong served on the program committee of the IEEE International Magnetics Conference (InterMAG) and International Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM, AIP) and chaired many sessions of these conferences. He was the publication committee chair for the IEEE International Conference on Microwave Magnetics 2016 and a member of the technical committee of the IEEE Magnetics Society (2012 -2017). He is a senior editorial board member of IEEE Magnetics Letters.