Principal Investigator

  • Donghun Kim (김동훈), Ph.D.

    Associate Professor

    Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST

Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Ohmin Kwon (권오민), Ph.D.

    InnoCORE Postdoctoral Fellow

    Lead of Computation Team

  • Kiseok Oh (오기석), Ph.D.

    InnoCORE Postdoctoral Fellow

    Lead of Experiment Team

  • Jungwoo Choi (최정우), Ph.D.

    Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Mingyu Jeon (전민규), Ph.D.

    Posdoctoral Researcher

Graduate Student

  • Jiwoo Choi (최지우)

    Graduate Student (Ph. D. course)

  • Gyeong Hoon Yi (이경훈)

    Graduate Student (Ph. D. course)

    Lab Chief

  • Sihyun Joo

    Sihyun Joo (주시현)

    Graduate Student (MS course)

  • Junho Yang (양준호)

    Graduate Student (MS course)

  • Dongwoo Kim (김동우)

    Graduate Student (MS course)

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    1 Opening for Fall 2026

Undergraduate Student

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    Welcome, URP Students!

    학부생 연구참여 프로그램

    (Will be available from Summer 2026)

Lab Administrator

  • Jeongeun Mun (문정은)

    Lab Administrator (CAIM Lab 행정원)

Alumni (Postdoctoral training)

  • Current position: Assistant Professor at University of Seoul (서울시립대 신소재공학과)

    Position at the CAIM Lab: Postdoctoral researcher

    Education:

    PhD Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST, Korea (2022)

    MS Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST, Korea (2017)

    BS Materials Science and Engineering, Physics (Dual), Hanyang University, Korea (2015)

    Research interest: AI for material design, Density functional theory, Electrocatalysis

    Papers from the CAIM Lab:

    • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2025)

    • Nature Communications (2025)_1st author

    • ACS Energy Letters (2024)_1st author

    • Nature Communications (2024)_1st author

    • Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2024)_1st author

    • Nature Communications (2023)_1st author

    • Nature Communications (2023)

    • Applied Catalysis B: Environmental (2023)

  • Current position: Senior reseacher at Samsung Electronics

    Position at the CAIM Lab: Postdoctoral researcher

    Education:

    PhD Information and Telecommunication Technology (Engineering), KAIST, Korea (2019)

    MS Computer Science, Lancaster University, UK (2014)

    BS Computer Science, Sunway University, Malaysia (2012)

    Research interest: Deep learning, Object detection and segmentation, Self-driving (autonomous) material synthesis lab

    Papers (from the CAIM Lab):

    • Advanced Functional Materials (2024)

    • npj Computational Materials (2024)_1st author

    • Acta Materialia (2023)_1st author

    • Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (2021)_1st author

    • npj Computational Materials (2020)_1st author

Alumni (Graduate or equivalent-level training)

  • Position at the CAIM Lab: MS program (Korea University)

    Education:

    MS Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University, Korea (2025)

    BS Chemistry (minor in Materials Science), Yonsei University, Korea (2022)

    Research interest: Natural language processing, Machine learning, Catalyst

    Papers (from the CAIM Lab):

  • Current position: Ph.D course at Northwestern University

    Position at the CAIM Lab: Research intern

    Education:

    MS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Sogang University, Korea (2023)

    BS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Sogang University, Korea (2021)om

    Research interest: Self-driving lab

  • Position at the CAIM Lab: Research intern

    Education:

    MS Organic Material Science and Engineering, Pusan University, Korea (2023)

    BS Organic Material Science and Engineering, Pusan University, Korea (2021)

    Research interest: Natural language processing, Machine learning, Catalyst

    Papers (from the CAIM Lab):

    • Advanced Science (2025)_1st author

  • Position at the CAIM Lab: Research intern

    Education:

    BS Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Ewha Womans University (2022)

    Research interest: Density functional theory, Catalyst

    Papers (from the CAIM Lab):

    • Nature Communications (2025)

  • Position at the CAIM Lab: MS program (Korea University)

    Education:

    BS Electronic and IT Media Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SEOULTECH), Korea (2021)

    Research interest: Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, Catalyst

    Papers (from the CAIM Lab):

    • Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2023)

  • Current position: Research fellow at Australian National University (ANU)

    Position at the CAIM Lab: Research intern

    Education:

    PhD Australian National University (2023)

    MS Mathematics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland (2017)

    BS Mathematics, KAIST, Korea (2015)

    Research interest: Topological data analysis, Machine learning, Water

    Papers (from the CAIM Lab):

    • Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (2019)_1st author

  • Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University

    Position at the CAIM Lab: Research intern

    Education:

    PhD Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST, Korea (2023)

    MS Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST, Korea (2017)

    BS Materials Science and Engineering (Double major: Computer Science), KAIST, Korea (2015)

    Research interest: Machine learning, Catalysis, Photonics

    Papers (from the CAIM Lab):

    • Chemistry of Materials (2020)_1st author