Prof. Hyunseok Oh appointed as assistant professor at GIST

Dr. Hyunseok Oh was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering in Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, Republic of Korea. In the last two and half years, he worked as a Research Professor in the Laboratory for System Health and Risk Management (SHRM) under the supervision of Prof. Byeng D. Youn. Dr. Oh said “I sincerely thank Prof. Youn for the wholehearted support and invaluable advices. And I really enjoyed working with talented and extraordinary students in the SHRM lab.” He will start his new career from November 1, 2016.<o:p></o:p>

He received the B.S. degree from Korea University, Seoul, Korea, in 2004, the M.S. degree from KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, in 2012. His research area includes prognostics and health management (PHM) of engineered systems and model verification and validation (V&V). Dr. Oh received the A. James Clark Fellowship (2007) and several awards including the IEEE PHM Data Challenge Competition Winner (2012), the PHM Society Data Challenge Competition Winner (2014, 2015), and the ACSMO Young Scientist Award (2016).