Yoonjin Won

Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine 

Dr. Won's overarching research goal is to gain fundamental insights into nanoscale interfacial and transport physics, centering on keywords—machine vision, graphics-driven science, data-centric approach, machine learning models, and materials design. The research efforts aim to bring transformational efficiency enhancements in energy, water, manufacturing processes, and electronics cooling by fundamentally manipulating liquid-solid-vapor interactions and transport phenomena across multiple length and time scales. Dr. Won is recognized with an NSF CAREER in 2018 and has also received several awards including the Emerging Innovation/Early Career Innovator of the Year 2020 from UCI Beall Innovation Center, ASME Early Career Award 2018 in EPPD Division, ASME Women Engineer Award 2020 in EPPD Division, ASME ICNMM Outstanding Leadership Award 2019, and numerous best paper and poster awards. The key papers are published in high impact journals including Advanced Science, Advanced Functional Materials, Small, Proceedings of National Academy of Science (PNAS), and American Chemical Society (ACS). Additional details for Dr. Won’s qualifications and research group are available online (won.eng.uci.edu).