Sangkyoung Lee, Ph.D., BPEQ, NER, PMP

Experience Record

• 01/2025 – Current Assistant Professor, Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA, USA
• 07/2024 – 12/2024 Research Fellow, The University of Southern Queensland, Springfield, QLD, Australia
• 01/2023 – 06/2024 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia
• 02/2022 – 12/2022 Associate Lecturer, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia
• 10/2019 – 02/2022 Research (PhD) Scholar, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia
• 08/2012 – 10/2017 Civil and Mechanical Project Engineer, Samsung Engineering, Seoul, S. Korea
  • Projects:
    • Yanbu Oil and Gas Steam Power Plant Project – Phase III (2,708MW, 3 Billion USD), Yanbu, Saudi Arabia/ Madrid, Spain/ Seoul, S. Korea
    • Ultra Pure Water Project for Samsung Electronics (Amount: 50 Million USD)
• 01/2010 – 05/2012 Teaching Assistant, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

Certificates, Professional Memberships, and Grants

• Registered Professional Engineers of Queensland (RPEQ No. 27170), The Board of Professional Engineers of Queensland
• Project Management Professional (PMP: 1802456), Project Management Institute
• Professional Engineer registered in National Engineer Register (NER), Member of Engineers Australia (MIEAust, EA ID: 5996513), Engineers Australia
• UQ Research Training Scholarship funded by the University of Queensland, Australia
• NSERC CREATE: Sustainable Engineering in Remote Area (SERA) Program award, funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

Specialty Areas

• Fluid Mechanics
• Thermodynamics
• Energy Conversion
• Turbomachinery
• Renewable Energy
• Machine Learning

Publications

• Hao Li, Ruhai Zhang, Zhen Li, Sangkyoung Lee, Yaping Ju, Chuhua Zhang, Yuanshen Lu, “Design optimization and off-design performance analysis of one-dimensional supercritical CO2 Brayton cycle”, Applied Thermal Engineering, 258, Jan. 2025
• Sangkyoung Lee, Zhuoxiao Chen, Yadan Luo, Xuliang Li, Mingyuan Lu, Zi Helen Huang, Han Huang, “Enhanced prediction accuracy in high-speed grinding of brittle materials using advanced machine learning techniques”, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Nov. 2024
• JR Ramírez, CG Arranz, M Opolot, S Lee, C Zhao, “Analytical modelling of an indirect evaporative cooler based on the Maisotsenko cycle for HVAC applications”, Avances en Ciencias y Técnicas del Frío-12. Actas del XII Congreso Ibérico y X Congreso Iberoamericano de Ciencias y Técnicas del Frío CYTEF 2024, Oct. 2024
• Hao Li, Zhen Li, Sangkyoung Lee, Yuanshen Lu, Yaping Ju, Chuhua Zhang, “Supercritical carbon dioxide cycle thermodynamic and exergoeconomic improvements using a bidirectional coupling strategy”, Energy, Volume 296, 2024, 131140, ISSN 0360-5442, Jun. 2024
• Sangkyoung Lee, David Mee, Zhigiang Guan, and Hal Gurgenci, “Optimum combination of diesel and concentrating solar in remote area power generation using supercritical CO2 turbines”, Energy and Conversion Management, 278, 0196-8904, Jan. 2023
• M. Monjurul Ehsan, Muhammad Awais, Sangkyoung Lee, Sayedus Salehin, Zhiqiang Guan, Hal Gurgenci “Potential Prospects of Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles for Commercialisation: Applicability, Research Status, and Advancement”, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 172, 1364-0321, Nov. 2022
• Xin Sui, Hugh Russell, Hal Gurgenci, Sangkyoung Lee, Zhiqiang Guan, Peixin Dong, “A one-dimensional modelling methodology of printed circuit heat exchangers for steady, off-design and transient feasibility in a supercritical CO2 power block”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 193, 0017-9310, Sep. 2022
• Sangkyoung Lee, David Mee, Zhigiang Guan, and Hal Gurgenci, “Off-design Performance Prediction of Supercritical CO2 Radial Inflow Turbines” – preprint, available at SSRN 4166502
• Sangkyoung Lee, Grant Yaganegi, David Mee, Zhigiang Guan, and Hal Gurgenci, “Part-Load Performance Prediction for Supercritical CO2 Radial Inflow Turbines”, Energy and Conversion Management, 235, 0196-8904, Mar. 2021
• Sangkyoung Lee, David Mee, Zhiqiang Guan, and Hal Gurgenci, “Meanline Design and Off-Design Performance Prediction for Supercritical CO2 Radial Inflow Turbines” Australian Fluid Mechanics Conference, 7th -9th Dec. 2020
• Sangkyoung Lee and Hal Gurgenci, “A comparison of three methodological approaches for meanline design of supercritical CO2 radial inflow turbines”, Energy and Conversion Management, 206, 0196-8904, Jan. 2020
• Sangkyoung Lee, “Computational Investigation of Flashover Mechanism using Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS)”, Master Thesis, the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, May 2011
• Sangkyoung Lee, Gavin Horn and Dimitrios C. Kyritsis “Computational Investigation of Flashover Mechanism using Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS)”, 7th U.S. National Combustion meeting at Georgia Tech, Mar. 2011
• Vinit Prabhu, Sangkyoung Lee, and Herek L. Clack, “Electrostatic Precipitation of Powdered Activated Carbon and Implications for Secondary Mercury Adsorption within Electrostatic Precipitators”, Energy & Fuels, 25,1010-1016, Mar. 2011