About

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, Korea, 2007
Assistant professor at UMBC since 2011.
Research interests: energy harvesting device design, structural topology optimization, robust and reliability based design optimization.

Research interests

Energy harvesting device design, Structural topology optimization, Robust and reliability based design optimization.

Teaching interests

Mechanical Design, Optimization, Dynamics, Vibration, Energy systems

Education

  • Ph D, Mechanical Engineering — Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (2007)
    Smooth Boundary Topology Optimization Using B-spline and Hole Generation
  • MS, Mechanical Engineering — Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (2000)
    A CAD-based Software for Simulation of Lifting and Turnover of Ship Block
  • BS, Mechanical Engineering and Production Engineering — Yonsei University (1998)

Publications

  • Use of Piezoelectric Material for Advanced and Cost-Effective Tumor Screening. 2019 ASME 2018 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS), San Antonio, TX, September 10–12, 2018 · pp. SMASIS-2018-7957 Lucas McCullum, Liang Zhu, Soobum Lee
  • Exploiting Multi-modal Sensing for Increased Detection Fidelity of Pipeline Leakage 2019 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE2019) · pp. 8 Apekisha Lanjile, Mohamed F Younis, Seung Jun Kim, Soobum Lee
  • Use of Piezoelectric Material for Advanced and Cost-Effective Tumor Screening. 2018 ASME 2018 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS), San Antonio, TX, September 10–12, 2018 Saman Nezami, Myung Sung, Hyunjun Jung, Soobum Lee

Grants and Contracts

  • Institute for Cyber-Resilient Energy-Efficient Manufacturing 2020 DOE · Grant · Not Funded Nilanjan Banerjee (Principal), Anupam Joshi (Co-Principal), Soobum Lee (Co-Principal), Marcus Zupan (Co-Principal), Ryan W Robucci (Co-Principal), James T Oates (Co-Principal)
  • A Low Cost Breast Cancer Screening Device Using Piezoelectricity - Development and Evaluation 2017 NIH-R21 · Grant · Not Funded Liang Zhu (Principal), Soobum Lee (Co-Principal)
  • A low-cost and portable breast cancer detection device for early stage screening 2016 DoD · Grant · Not Funded Liang Zhu (Co-Principal), Soobum Lee (Principal)
  • Acquisition of MicroLabBox real-time data acquisition and control platform for research and education 2015 COEIT · Grant · Funded Mohamed F Younis (Co-Principal), Weidong Zhu (Principal), Panos G Charalambides (Co-Principal), Soobum Lee (Co-Principal), Meilin Yu (Co-Principal), Stephen Andrew Gadsden (Co-Principal), Ting Zhu (Co-Principal)
  • Prototype Development for a Networked Multi-modal Sensor System for Autonomous, Non-intrusive, and Self-sustained Pipeline Monitoring 2015 COEIT · Grant · Funded Mohamed F Younis (Principal), Soobum Lee (Co-Principal), Seung Jun Kim (Co-Principal), Weidong Zhu