Rate My Professor Yong Hoon Lee

Dr. Lee's research focuses on multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization, control co-design, multi-fidelity modeling, surrogate-based optimization, computational modeling and analysis in fluid applications and systems, and renewable energy systems including offshore wind, ocean wave, and current energy. His research applications encompass offshore wind farms, floating offshore wind turbines, hydrokinetic turbines, eVTOL urban mobility, EV battery thermal management systems, energy grid optimization, and biomimetic micro aerial vehicles. As principal investigator, he leads U.S. Department of Energy ARPA-E projects such as "Wind Energy with Integrated Servo-control (WEIS): A Tool Set to Enable Controls Co-Design of Floating Offshore Wind Energy Systems" (2023-2026) and "A Low-Cost Floating Offshore Vertical Axis Wind System" (2023). Selected publications include "Wind turbine control co-design using dynamic system derivative function surrogate model (DFSM) based on OpenFAST linearization" in Applied Energy (2025), "Nested control co-design of a spar buoy horizontal-axis floating offshore wind turbine" in Ocean Engineering (2025), "Multidisciplinary modeling and control co-design of a floating offshore vertical-axis wind turbine system" in Journal of Mechanical Design (2025), and "Enhancing full-film lubrication performance via arbitrary surface texture design" in Journal of Mechanical Design (2017), which earned an Honorable Mention for the 2017 Journal of Mechanical Design Editor's Choice Award. Additional honors include ASME 50th Design Automation Conference Papers of Distinction (2024) and the Outstanding Lecture Award from the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (2023). He has given invited lectures at Cornell University, NASA Glenn Research Center, and Texas A&M University.