Prof. Wontae Hwang joined the Mechanical Engineering Dept. at Seoul National University in 2016. He currently serves as the Vice Dean of International Affairs at the College of Engineering and Vice President of the Korean Society of Fluid Machinery. His research areas focus on aerodynamics and heat transfer within gas turbines, and turbulent particle dispersion within the atmosphere. He specializes in the fields of fluid mechanics, multiphase flow, turbulence, heat transfer, combustion, and experimental techniques such as MRI flow imaging, infrared pyrometry, and laser/optical diagnostics. Prof. Hwang was previously at GE Research for 8 years and Sandia National Laboratories for 3 years. He obtained his PhD at Stanford University in 2005, and B.S. at Seoul National University in 1997.