Biography

Dr. Taeyoon Kim received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Seoul National University in 2004. He then received his SM and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007 and 2010, respectively. Then, he held a postdoctoral position in the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics at the University of Chicago until 2013. At Purdue University, Dr. Kim is the principal investigator of the Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue (MCT) Biomechanics Laboratory, which studies diverse mechanical behaviors of biological matters, using cutting-edge computational models that span subcellular levels to the cell and tissue levels.