Biography

I was born and raised in Seoul, Korea.  I received BS and MS degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Seoul National University, Korea and have worked as a structural engineer in Agency for Defense Development, Korea for the following 5 years.  After all the years of working on huge systems including missiles and airplanes, I decided to take the challenge of going into the other limit -  micro/nanoscale world.  I'm currently working toward the Ph. D. degree at University of California, Los Angeles, focusing on biomedical application of micro/nano technology.  I'm also a happy (and busy) father of Minhong and Daniel.

Professional Experience


Agency for Defense Development, Daejon, Korea (1999-2004)
Researcher, Department of Missile Airframe and Launcher Development
  • Worked on the development of cold launching system for Korean Mid-range Surface to Air
    Missile(KMSAM) and launcher for Korean Portable Surface to Air Missile(KPSAM).
  • Successfully developed various structural system and components which involved high-speed large deformation, contact, impact, fracture, fluid dynamics, and fluid-structure interaction.
  • Experienced with whole development cycle of weapon system, ranging over conceptual design, detailed design, manufacture, component test, and field test of complete launching system.

Education

  • B.S., Aerospace Engineering, 1997, Seoul National University, Korea
  • M.S., Aerospace Engineering, 1999, Seoul National University, Korea thesis
  • Independent Study, Mechanical Engineering, 2004-2005, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Ph.D Candidate, Mechanical Engineering, 2006-Present, University of California at Los Angeles

Publications- Journals

  1. Jichul Kim and Y. Sungtaek Ju, "Brownian Microscopy for Simultaneous in situ Measurements of the Viscosity and Velocity Fields in Steady Laminar Microchannel Flows," accepted for publication in Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 2008 Link
  2. Y. Sungtaek Ju, Jichul Kim, and Ming-Tsung Hung, "Experimental Study of Heat Conduction in Aqueous Suspensions of Aluminum Oxide Nanoparticles," Journal of Heat Transfer, 130(9), 092403, 2008 Link
  3. Ming-Tsung Hung, Jichul Kim, and Y. Sungtaek Ju, "Exploration of thermolithography for micro- and nanomanufacturing," Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 123110 (2006) Link
  4. Jichul Kim, Jung-Kyu Ryou, and Seung Jo Kim, “Optimal Gain Distribution for Two-dimensional
    Modal Transducer and Its Implementation Using Multi-layered PVDF Films,” Journal of Sound and
    Vibration, 251(.3), pp.395-408  (2002)     Link
  5. Jichul Kim, Joon-Seok Hwang, and Seung Jo Kim, "Design of modal transducer by optimizing spatial distribution of discrete gain weights," AIAA Journal, 39(10), pp. 1969-1976 (2001) Link

Publications- Conference Proceedings

  1. Jichul Kim and Y. Sungtaek Ju, "On-Chip Characterization of Transport Properties of Liquid Solutions Using Microfluidic Channel-Based Brownian Microscopy," MEMS 2008, January 13-17, 2008, Tucson, Arizona, USA Link
  2. Y. Sungtaek Ju, Jichul Kim, and Ming-Tsung Hung, "Experimental Study of Heat Conduction in Aqueous Suspensions of Aluminum Oxide Nanoparticles," Proceedings of 2007 ASME-JSME Thermal Engineering Summer Heat Transfer Conference, July 8-12, 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA
  3. Jichul Kim and Y. Sungtaek Ju, "Analysis and Experimental Characterization of Statistical Errors in Brownian Microscopy," Proceedings of the 2006 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 5-10, 2006, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Link
  4. Jichul Kim and Woo Jeon Shim, "Design of the Brake Device Using the Axial Crushing of Truncated Cone Type Cyliner," Proceedings of the 2nd Asia International Conference on Tribology, pp.387-388, 2002, Jeju Island, Korea  PDF
  5. Seung Jo Kim, Jung-Kyu Ryu, Joon Seok Hwang and Jichul Kim, "Design of Distributed Modal Transducer by Optimizing Gain-weights of Interface Circuit," Proceedings of the First Asian-Australasian Conference on Composite Materials (ACCM-1), Paper No.633, 1998, Osaka, Japan.
  6. Seung Jo Kim, Joon-Seok Hwang, and Jichul Kim, "Sensor/Actuator System Design by Adjusting Spatial Gain Distribtuion for Vibration Control of Composite Plates," Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Materials, pp. 150-151, 1998, Makuhari, Chiba, Japan.

Publications- Korean Journals

  1. 김지철, 이학렬, 김일수, 심우전, 박동화, "콘 형상 실린더의 축 방향 압축변형을 이용한 충격흡수장치 설계", 한국윤활학회지, 19(5), pp. 259-267, 2003
  2. 김지철, 박근영, 유정규, 황준석, 김승조, "구조물의 진동제어를 위한 압전 감지기/작동기의 설계 최적화", 한국항공우주학회지, 28(1), pp.73-86, 2000.
  3. 유정규, 김지철, 김승조, "다층 압전 필름의 전극 패턴 최적화를 통한 2차원 구조물에서의 모달 변환기 구현", 한국소음진동공학회지, 8(4), pp. 632-642, 1998

Publications- Korean Conference Proceedings

  1. 김지철, 이우진, 홍길호, "유한요소해석을 이용한 휴대용 대공유도무기 발사대의 경량화 설계", 제12차 유도무기 학술대회 논문집, pp. 385-388, 2003. Abstract
  2. 김지철, 이학렬, "유한요소법을 이용한 M-SAM 수직발사체계 발사역학 해석",  제12차 유도무기 학술대회 논문집, pp. 377-380, 2003. Abstract
  3. 김지철, 이학렬, 김일수, 심우전, "콘 형상 제동장치의 축 방향 압축변형에 대한 실험적 연구", 한국윤활학회 제35회 춘계학술대회, pp. 169-176, 2002. PDF
  4. 하재훈, 김지철, 김일수, 심우전, "Piston 방식 사출발사장치의 가스 동역학 해석", 제11차 유도무기 학술대회 논문집, pp. 576-579, 2001.
  5. 김지철, 이학렬, 심우전, "소성변형을 갖는 원통형 제동장치의 동적거동에 대한 유한요소해석", 한국윤활학회 제32회 춘계학술대회 논문집, pp. 199-204, 2000.
  6. 하재훈, 심우전, 김일수, 김지철, "가스 발생기를 이용한 수직 발사대 사출장치의 수학적 모델링", 제9차 유도무기 학술대회 논문집, pp. 495-501, 1999.
  7. 김지철, 황준석, 유정규, 김승조, "인터페이스 회로의 이득 최적화를 통한 분포형 모달 변환기 설계", 한국소음진동공학회 춘계학술대회 논문집, pp. 444-449, 1998.
  8. 김지철, 유정규, 김승조, "다층압전필름 변환기의 전극패턴설계 최적화", 한국복합재료학회 추계학술대회 논문집, pp. 150-153, 1997
  9. 최유진, 김지철, 강신형, 김승조, "원심 압축기의 고효율 임펠러 설계를 위한 유한요소해석", Proceedings of the MSC Korea Users Conference, pp. 497-507, 1996