Bio

Youyeon has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Nuclear Engineering from Seoul National University in Seoul, Republic of Korea. After she finished her Master program, she worked as a research intern at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) where she participated in a verification test for the passive safety system of SMART reactor. Before she came back to school for her doctoral degree program, she worked at Korea Institute of Nuclear Nonproliferation and Control (KINAC) as a researcher where she was responsible for developing an international training course for cybersecurity of nuclear power plants and operating domestic public awareness programs. Currently, Youyeon is a Ph.D. candidate at MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (research advisor: prof. Koroush Shirvan) working on high-fidelity modeling and simulation for small modular reactors design including surrogate modeling based uncertainty quantification.