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Sung Min Jo

Sung Min Jo

Assistant Professor

EMAIL
  • Office: ENG I
  • Email: sungmin.jo@ucf.edu
  • Phone: 407-823-2416

BIOGRAPHY

Sung Min Jo is an assistant professor at UCF, specializing in computational hypersonics and plasma physics research and education. He earned his Ph.D. in 2020 from KAIST and later conducted postdoctoral research at CHESS, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Prior to join UCF, he worked as an assistant professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in South Korea. Since joining UCF in 2025, he has led the Hypersonics and Plasma Research Group (HPRG), focusing on uncertainty-aware plasma reaction dynamics, multi-physics coupled numerical methods and space situational awareness.

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. – KAIST

RESEARCH

  • Hypersonics
  • High-enthalpy plasmas
  • Uncertainty quantification
  • Aerothermochemistry
  • High-performance multi-physics coupling

PUBLICATIONS

  • Le Maout, V., Jo, S.M., Munafò, A., & Panesi, M., (2025). Numerical investigation of radiative transfers interactions with material ablative response for hypersonic atmospheric entry. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 246, 126999. (Co-first Author.
  • Jo, S. M., Venturi, S., Kim, J. G., & Panesi, M. (2023). Rovibrational internal energy transfer and dissociation of high-temperature oxygen mixture. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 158(6).
  • Jo, S. M., Venturi, S., Sharma, M. P., Munafò, A., & Panesi, M. (2022). Rovibrational-specific QCT and master equation study on N2()+O(3P) and NO()+N(4S) systems in high-energy collisions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 126(21), 3273-3290.
  • Jo, S. M., Panesi, M., & Kim, J. G. (2021). Prediction of shock standoff distance with modified rotational relaxation time of air mixture. Physics of Fluids, 33(4).
  • Kim, J. G., & Jo, S. M. (2021). Modification of chemical-kinetic parameters for 11-air species in re-entry flows. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 169, 120950. (Corresponding Author)
  • Jo, S. M., Kwon, O. J., & Kim, J. G. (2020). Stagnation-point heating of Fire II with a non-Boltzmann radiation model. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 153, 119566.
  • Jo, S. M., Kwon, O. J., & Kim, J. G. (2019). Electronic-state-resolved analysis of high-enthalpy air plasma flows. Physical Review E, 100(3), 033203.
  • Jo, S. M., Shim, H., Park, G., Kwon, O. J., & Kim, J. G. (2019). Temperature determination in a shock tube using hydroxyl radical AX band emission. Physics of Fluids, 31(2).
  • Young Investigator Research Award, National Research Foundation, South Korea (2025)
  • Summer Program Research Visiting Scholar, Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University (2024)
  • Bast Paper Award, Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology (2020)
  • Best Presentation Award – 32nd International Symposium on Shock Waves (2017)

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