Dr. Yang-Ki Hong
E. A. Larry Drummond Endowed Chair of Computer Engineering
Contact
- 2009 NERC
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Dr. Yang-Ki Hong is the E. A. “Larry” Drummond Endowed Chair and Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at The University of Alabama. He serves as the director of NSF IUCRC-UA: Center for Efficient Vehicles and Sustainable Transportation Systems. He received BS and MS (Condensed matter physics: Magnetism) in Physics from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, and his Ph.D. in metallurgy from the University of Utah in 1981. He graduated from the Program of Management Development (PMD), Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, Boston, MA, in 1994. Before joining the University of Alabama as the Endowed Chair Professor in 2006, he was a professor of Materials Science & Engineering and an adjunct professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Idaho, and Sr. Vice President of the R&D Division of OCI Company, Ltd., Seoul, South Korea.
Dr. Hong served on the program committee of the IEEE International Magnetics Conference (InterMAG) and International Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM, AIP) and chaired many sessions of these conferences. He was the publication committee chair for the IEEE International Conference on Microwave Magnetics 2016 and a member of the technical committee of the IEEE Magnetics Society (2012 -2017). He is a senior editorial board member of IEEE Magnetics Letters.
Affiliated Areas
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Selected Publications
- Shuhui Li, Hahnemann Mondal, Md Rumman Rafi, and Yang-Ki Hong, “Building Experimental Twins Between Low and High Voltage Inverters Based on A Novel Per-Unit and Time-Angular Domain Conversion Technique,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Early access, August 14, 2025.
- Jihye Park, Minyeong Choi, Haein Choi-Yim, Yang-Ki Hong, Seong-Gon Kim, and Heath Turner, “Electronic Structures of NANOMET-based Nanocrystalline Soft Magnetic Alloys: Magnetic Properties,” Physica B: Condensed Matter Vol. 714, 417510 (2025).
- Yang-Ki Hong, Seok Bae, Jihoon Park, Minyeong Choi, Chang-Dong Yeo, Md Abdul Wahed, Kisuk Lee, Haein Yim-Choi, and Wooyoung Lee, “Analytical Maximum Energy Product (BH)max Model for Magnetic Exchange Coupled Core-Shell Nanomagnets: Rare-Earth-Free Permanent Magnet Materials,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 61, No. 9, 2300309 (2025).
- Md Abdul Wahed, Chang-Dong Yeo, Yang-Ki Hong, Minyeong Choi, Shuhui Li, WooYoung Lee, Seok Bae, and Haein Choi-Yim, “Quantum Mechanical Design of Rare-Earth-Free Ferromagnetic Material Incorporating 2p Element Doping for Permanent Magnet Applications,” Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Vol. 615, 172775 (2025).
- Yang-Ki Hong, Jihoon Park, Hang Nam Ok, Minyeong Choi, Md Abdul Wahed, Myung-Hwa Jung, and Chang-Dong Yeo, “Mössbauer and Density Functional Studies of Ferrimagnetic Fe3Se4,” IEEE Magnetics Letters Vol. 15, 2500305 (2024).
Awards and Honors
- Distinguished Fellow of the Korean Magnetics Society (May 2024).
- Hong’s magnetics team won second place at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society 2018 Student Design Contest, July 8-13, 2018, Boston.
- Hong’s magnetics team won first place at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society 2017 Student Design Contest, July 9-14, 2017, San Diego.
- Received the Graduate Education Award, College of Engineering, The University of Alabama, April 16, 2020.