Choi Woen-Sug Department of Ocean Engineering, Korea Maritime & Ocean University 📧 [email protected] 📧 [email protected]

⭐️ Research Interests

• UUV/AUV dynamics and control simulations
  • Kinematics and dynamics of underwater vehicles, including hydrodynamics and controls for mission planning optimizations
  • Simulation of real-time multi-beam sonar using GPU accelerations, including target scattering
• Computational aeroacoustics/hydroacoustics and vibroacoustics
  • Modeling and simulation of flow-induced noise and vibration
  • Turbulence models of computational fluid dynamics and application of computational acoustics
• Fluid-structure interaction analysis
  • Predictions of vibration and noise excited by turbulent boundary layers and turbulent flows
  • Simulation of flow-induced resonance behavior such as frequency lock-in phenomenon and safety boundaries

⭐️ Profile

• Highly self-motivated with research expertise with shipbuilding and ocean engineering background. Strong interpersonal skills, research proposals, and project management. Various experiences on projects with government entities (i.e., ROK Navy, ADD) and private corporations (i.e., DSME, HHI).
• Rich experience in AUV/ASV simulator developments for implementation of dynamics/kinematics model of ROVs and underwater gliders at ROS-Gazebo platform to support autonomous robotics developments. Development experience in various sensor supports, including real-time multi-beam sonar simulation using GPU accelerations.
• Rich experience in modeling and simulation of hydrodynamics for ship resistance/maneuvering using the OpenFOAM and developments of acoustics and vibrations analysis tools for underwater structures.
• 🗣 Fluent in Korean 🇰🇷 (Native), English 🇺🇸 (Fluent; Graduated middle school in San Antonio, Texas, USA), and Japanese 🇯🇵 (Fluent; Graduated University in Japan).

📚 Education

Seoul National University

Feb. 2020, Seoul, South Korea Ph.D. in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering

• Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Ship Noise and Vibration Laboratory
• Development of numerical analysis methods for flow-induced noise due to turbulent flows around underwater structures (Advisor: Prof. Suk-Yoon Hong)

Yokohama National University

Feb. 2013, Yokohama, Japan B.E. in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (Machine processing course)

• Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Digital Engineering Laboratory