Daegyoum Kim (김대겸)

Contact

E-mail: daegyoum [at] kaist.ac.kr

TEL: +82-42-350-3218

Office: 3103 at Bldg. N27

Education

Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, GALCIT (2007-2010)

M.S. California Institute of Technology, GALCIT (2006-2007)

B.S. Seoul National University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (1999-2003)

Professional Experience

Professor, KAIST, Mechanical Engineering (2024- )

Director, KAIST InnoCORE POSEIDON Center (2026- )

Director, Graduate School of Ocean Systems Engineering, KAIST (2025- ) 

Joliot Chair-Invited Professor, ESPCI Paris (2025.6-7)

Associate Professor, KAIST, Mechanical Engineering (2019-2024)

Assistant Professor, KAIST, Mechanical Engineering (2014-2019)

Postdoctoral Scholar, Brown University, School of Engineering (2013-2014)

Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology, GALCIT (2010-2013)

Honors and Awards

Kasan Research Excellence Award, Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (2023)

Young Member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, Y-KAST (2022)

Songam Young Investigator Award, KAIST (2019)

William F. Ballhaus Prize, Caltech GALCIT (2010)

Rolf D. Buhler Memorial Award, Caltech GALCIT (2007)

Samsung Scholarship for graduate study (2006-2010)

Award from Alumni Association of College of Engineering, Seoul National University (2003)

Teaching Awards

Applied Fluid Mechanics, KAIST ME (Spring 2026, Spring 2016)

Basic Thermofluid Simulation, KAIST ME (Spring 2025)

Viscous Flow, KAIST ME (Fall 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2018)

Fluid-structure Interaction, KAIST ME (Spring 2020)

Research Interests

Fluid-structure interaction, Multi-phase flow, Bio-inspired flow,

Convective heat transfer, Magneto- and electrohydrodynamics,

Unsteady aero- and hydrodynamics