Yoonjin Won

Dr. Won’s overarching research goal is to gain fundamental insights into nanoscale transport and interfacial physics, centering on keywords—data-driven 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 ASME EPPD Early Career Award 2018, The Emerging Innovation/Early Career Innovator of the Year 2020 from UCI Beall Innovation Center, ASME EPPD Women Engineer Award 2020, ASME ICNMM Outstanding Leadership Award 2019, UCI Samueli Career Development Fellowship, and numerous best paper and poster awards. The key papers are published in high impact journals including Small, Proceedings of National Academy of Science (PNAS), Advanced Functional Materials, and American Chemical Society (ACS). Additional details for Dr. Won’s qualifications and research group are available online (won.eng.uci.edu).