Sungmin Nam, PhD
Education
- Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University (2019)
Advisor: Ovijit Chaudhuri - M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University (2015)
Advisor: Ovijit Chaudhuri - B.S. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University (2013)
Employment
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2024 – )
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Engineering & Applied Science, Harvard University (2019 – 2024)
Advisor: David Mooney
Selected Honors and Awards
- New Investigator Recognition Award – Orthopedic Research Society (ORS), 2023
- Innovators Under 35 (Korea) – MIT Technology Review, 2022
- Rising Stars in Soft and Biological Matter Symposium – The NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSEC) at the University of Chicago and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), 2022
- Baxter Young Investigator Award – Baxter Healthcare Incorporation, 2022
- Best Poster Presentation Award – The US-KOREA Conference on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, 2022
- Family Care Travel Award – Gordon Research Conference (GRC) for Musculoskeletal Biology and Bioengineering, 2022
- Wyss Technology Development Fellow – The Wyss Institute at Harvard University, 2019 – 2024
- Samsung Scholarship Fellow – Samsung Scholarship Foundation, 2015 – 2019
- Travel Award – Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) for Signal Transduction by Engineered Extracellular Matrices (STEEM), 2018
- Travel Award – Bio-X at Stanford, 2017
- Jeongsong Culture Foundation Fellow – Jeongsong Culture Foundation, 2013 – 2015
- The Dean’s List Award – College of Engineering in SNU, 2013
- Summa Cum Laude – College of Engineering in SNU, 2013
- Best Presentation Award – Bachelor Thesis Presentation Contest at SNU, 2012
- Kwanjeong Educational Foundation Fellow – Kwanjeong Educational Foundation, 2008 – 2012