Dr. Ikjin Lee is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He received his M.S. Diploma from the Seoul National University (Korea) in 2003, and Ph.D. (2008) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Iowa. From 2011 to 2013, he was in the University of Connecticut as an assistant professor, and joined KAIST at 2013. In 2009, he received the International Society of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (ISSMO)/Springer prize for a young scientist.