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