- Ph. D. in Physics, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, 2007
- M. S. in Physics, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, 2003
- B. S. in Physics, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, 2001
- Associate Professor, DGIST, Daegu, Korea, 2019 – present
- Assistant Professor, DGIST, Daegu, Korea, Nov. 2014. – 2018
- Staff Scientist IV, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, Colorado, U.S.A., 2014
- Staff Scientist III, NREL, Golden, Colorado, U.S.A., 2010 – 2014
- First-principles calculations of real materials
- Materials design for energy and information applications
- Materials physics of complex systems using machine-learned potentials
- Machine learning for materials physics and chemistry
- D. Shim and J. Kang, Enhanced reactivity of magic-sized inorganic clusters by engineering the surface ligand networks. Chem. Mater. 35, 700 (2023).
- D. Shim, J. Lee, and J. Kang, Multiscale isomerization of magic-sized inorganic clusters chemically driven by atomic-bond exchanges. Chem. Mater. 34, 9527 (2022).
- J. Lee, J. Bang, and J. Kang, Nonequilibrium charge-density-wave melting in 1T-TaS2 triggered by electronic excitation: A real-time time-dependent density functional theory study. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 13, 5711 (2022).
- B. Lee and J. Kang, Electric-field-tunable bandgaps in the inverse-designed nanoporous graphene/graphene heterobilayers. Adv. Electron. Mater. 8, 2200252 (2022).
- H. Khoirunnisa and J. Kang, Charge-induced magnetic instability of atomically thin ferromagnetic semiconductors: The case of CrI3. Phys. Rev. B 104, 085414 (2021).