Dr. Sung Yi is Professor and Chair of the Mechanical and Materials Engineering Department in the Maseeh College of Engineering & Computer Science at Portland State University. Dr. Yi's primary research interests are in semiconductor materials and manufacturing, computational mechanics, constitutive modeling and characterization of electronic and engineering materials, 3D bioprinting, and machine learning for predicting thermo-mechanical behaviors and failures of materials and systems.
Dr. Yi was also a Singapore-MIT Alliance Fellow from 1998 to 2002. From 2006 to 2009, he served as a Vice President at R&D Institute, Samsung Electro-Mechanics. Dr. Yi has been an editorial advisory board member for the Journals of Soldering and Surface Mount Technology since 1998. He also served as an associate editor for ASME: Journal of Electronic Packaging from 2001 to 2004 and an editorial advisory board member for the Journal of Finite Elements in Analysis and Design from 2000 to 2004. He received the Jefferson Goblet Paper Award at the 32nd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC SDM Conference in 1991 and the Roger A. Strehlow Memorial Award, UIUC in 1992, respectively. He also received Hedong Technology Award in 2007 and Intel Learning Star Award in 2009, respectively.
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