2024 - Present

• Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST

2015 – 2024

• Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute, Johns Hopkins University

2012 – 2014

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University (Advisor: Prof. Katia Bertoldi)

2008 – 2012

• Research Assistant, Harvard University (Advisor: Prof. Joanna Aizenberg)

2004 – 2007

• Staff Scientist, EIC Laboratories, Inc.

2001 – 2004

• Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Advisor: Prof. Vladimir Bulovic)

• Extreme materials for harsh environments toward resilient, sustainable, and healthy future

• Investigation of material systems adapting to environment inspired by nature (bioinspired materials)
• Design and synthesis of materials with novel properties which do not exist in nature (metamaterials)
• Application of bioinspired concepts to address current challenges in science and technology

• Sung Hoon Kang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He earned a Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics at Harvard University and M.S. and B.S. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT and Seoul National University, respectively. Before joining KAIST, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute and Institute for NanoBioTechnology at Johns Hopkins University. Sung Hoon has been investigating solutions to address current challenges in engineering materials, structures and devices with applications including resiliency, sensing, energy, and healthcare. In particular, he investigates behaviors of coupled material systems by numerical modeling, nano/micro/macro fabrication, 3D printing, 3D structural/material/mechanical characterizations, and in vitro & in vivo testing. His research has been supported by NRF-Korea, AFOSR, NSF, NIH, ARO, ONR, State of Maryland, and private foundations. Throughout his career, Sung Hoon has co-authored 73 papers, has given ~250 presentations (including over 170 invited talks), and has eight patents and three pending patents. His honors include 2024 National Research Foundation of Korea Brain Pool Plus Fellowship, 2023 Young Innovator Award by Nano Research, Invitee for First US-Africa Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium, 2022 Hanwha Non-Tenured Faculty Award, 2021, 2020 Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2020 Johns Hopkins University Catalyst Award, 2019 Johns Hopkins University School of Engineering Research Lab Excellence Award, Invitee for 2019 China-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, FY 2018 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program Award, Invitee for 2016 National Academy of Engineering US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, and 2011 Materials Research Society Graduate Students Gold Award. He served as an editorial board member of Scientific Reports and a guest editor of Materials Research Society Bulletin. Currently, he serves as an editorial board member of Journal of Physics: Materials and Sensors, respectively. He has been co-organizing ~35 symposia on bioinspired materials, 3D printing, and mechanical metamaterials at international conferences. He is a member of Materials Research Society (MRS), American Physical Society (APS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Electrochemical Society (ECS), and Society of Engineering Science (SES). He served as the Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, and Editor of ASME Technical Committee on Mechanics of Soft Materials.

• Journal of Physics: Materials (January 2023-Present), Sensors (August 2020-Present), Multifunctional Materials (June 2020-December 2022), Scientific Reports (November 2014-October 2017)

• November 2024 Issue of Materials Research Society Bulletin (“Dynamically Adaptive Materials”), Special Issue on Soft Composite-Based Sensor of journal Sensors (2021), February 2016 Issue of Materials Research Society Bulletin (“Beyond Conventional Lithography: Patterning via Self-Organization and Self-Folding”).

• Nature, Science, Nature Materials, Progress in Materials Science, Materials Science and Engineering R: Reports, Advanced Materials, Science Advances, Science Robotics, Additive Manufacturing, Advanced Functional Materials, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ACS Nano, Nanoscale, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Applied Energy, Advanced Intelligent Systems, Chemical Engineering Journal, ACS Applied Energy Materials, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Extreme Mechanics Letters, Journal of Applied Mechanics, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Soft Matter, Composites Part A, Advanced Composite Materials, Matter, Smart Materials and Structures, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Advanced Materials Technologies, Advanced Engineering Materials, Regenerative Engineering and Translational Medicine, ACS Applied Polymer Materials, Materials and Design, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, Journal of Mechanical Design, Langmuir, Applied Physics Letters, Materials Today Bio, Micromachines, MRS Advances, Research.

• National Science Foundation, Army Research Office, National Institutes of Health, American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Israel Science Foundation, Israel Ministry of Science & Technology, Dutch Research Council (NOW), French National Research Agency (ANR), Fonds de recherche du Québec.

• QS Global Academic Survey (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017), Times Higher Education Global Academic Reputation Survey (2024).