Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Visiting Professor: Hoon Sohn

Hoon Sohn received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Seoul National University, Seoul Korea and Ph.D. from Stanford University all in Civil Engineering. He worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) as a Technical Staff Member and at Carnegie Mellon University as an Assistant Professor. He is now a Professor at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) in South Korea. His research interest has been in the areas of structural health monitoring, nondestructive testing, sensing technologies and data analytics.  He has published over 210 refereed journal articles, over 400 conference proceedings, and 12 book & book chapters. He is holding 28 domestic and 14 international patents, and his developed technologies are licensed and commercialized by private companies, resulting in over 1 Million USD licensing agreements. He is currently SPIE Fellow, Member of National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK), and Member of Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST).