SeungYeon Kang

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor

Dr. SeungYeon Kang is an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Connecticut. She obtained her B.A. degree from Cornell University in Chemical Engineering and received her Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics from Harvard University. After her graduate studies, she worked at Samsung SDI as a senior research engineer on lithium-ion batteries and at Princeton University as a postdoctoral research associate in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department. Before becoming a faculty, she was the program manager for NSF’s SHAP3D additive manufacturing center at the University of Connecticut. Her current research interests include advanced laser materials processing techniques, fundamental principles and application of light-matter interaction, light-based additive manufacturing, 3D nanofabrication and energy technology.