Biographical Information

Prof. Jeong received his Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, NJ, USA) in May 2013. After obtaining his Ph.D., he worked at Alcoa Technical Center as Sr. Engineer which is located in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, USA from Aug. 2013 to July 2014. And he then worked at LG Electronics (CTO, R&D Campus) as Sr. Research Engineer from Aug. 2014 to Feb. 2017. Currently, he works in the Department of Advanced Materials Engineering at Dong-eui University as Associate Professor in March 2017.

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Experiences

• March 2023 - Present: Associate Professor in the Department of Advanced Materials Engineering at Dong-eui University, Korea

• November 2020 - Present: Founder and President at ARotS: Durable Functional Coating and Nano Surface Treatment Technology

• March 2017 - February 2023: Assistant Professor in the Department of Advanced Materials Engineering at Dong-eui University, Korea: 

. Manufacturing oxide structures, multi-functional smart surfaces and corrosion engineering (ARotS Lab.)  

. Establishment of a technology holding company of Dong-eui University for cash investment (2021)

. Technology Value Evaluation (Korea Institute of  Science and Technology Information): $152,000.00 (2021)

• August 2014 - February 2017: Senior Research Engineer at LG Electronics (CTO), Seoul, Korea:

. R&D Roadmap for Next-Generation Technology, Functional Surfaces Coating for Anti-Fouling, Anti-Icing and Anti-Corrosion.

• August 2013 - July 2014: Senior R&D Professional at Alcoa Technical Center (ATC), New Kensington, Pennsylvania, USA:

. Surface Finishing, Anodizing, Aluminum Alloys, Improving Color Appearance, Advanced Manufacturing Technology.

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Honors and Awards

• 2023. 02: Awarded a Commendation from the President of Dong-eui University on the Outstanding Professor of R&D Sector: R&D 우수교원, 총장상

• 2022. 11: Best Paper at the Corrosion Science Society of Korea  

• 2022. 11: Best Paper at the Korea Institute of Surface Engineering 

• 2022. 10: Awarded a Commendation from Busan Mayor on Busan R&D Excellence in 2022 (Mechanical/Materials): 부산광역시 지역연구개발 우수성과 선정(기계·소재분야), 부산시장상

• 2022. 06: Awarded a Commendation from the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy on the 57th Invention Day of the Republic of Korea: 제57회 발명의 날, 산업통상자원부 장관 표창

• 2021. 11: Best Paper at the Corrosion Science Society of Korea

• 2017. 11: Best Presentation at the Korean Welding and Joining Society

• 2014. 12: Creative People Award at LG Electronics

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Collaborators

• Prof. Xi Chen at CUNY, NY, US

• Prof. Jae Chul Kim at Stevens Institute of Tech., NJ, US

• Prof. Ke Du at University of California at Riverside, CA, US

• Prof. H. S. Kim at KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

• Prof. Young-Beom Kim at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

• Prof. Sung-Hee Kim at Dong-eui University, Busan, Korea

• Prof. Oi Lun Li at Pusan National University, Busan, Korea

• Dr. Wei Xu at Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY, US

• Dr. Kyu-Hwan Lee at Korea Institute of Materials Science, Changwon, Korea

• Dr. Seunghoe Choe at Korea Institute of Materials Science, Changwon, Korea

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Members

• Taein Park (Graduate): Plating, Corrosion

• Kyungtae Kim (Graduate): Plating Simulation, Corrosion

• Jisoo Kim (Graduate): Anodizing, Surface Coating, Machine Learning

• Yeji Choi (Graduate): Anodizing, Surface Coating, Machine Learning

• Soojin Lim (Graduate): Plating, Coating

• Seungmin Lee: Surface Engineering

• Rian Kim: Surface Engineering

• Subin Park: Surface Engineering

• Minhyuk Choi: Anodizing, Surface Coating

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Alumni

• Youngju Park: Researcher at Hwaseung R&A, (주)화승R&A 

• Hyejeong Ji: Researcher at Cuckoo Electronics, (주)쿠쿠전자

• Jonghun An: STX Heavy Industries, STX중공업

• Jinyeong Jung: R&D center at Wonjin World Wide