Dr. Han-Gyu Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Mississippi State University. A major thrust of his research is the development of multi-scale and multi-physics models for structural design and life prediction for composite structures in hypersonic aircraft. For this long-term project, he has been collaborating with the Structural Science Center in the Air Force Research Lab at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base since 2014. He is currently working with the NASA Glenn Research Center and the Federal Aviation Administration to develop high-fidelity damage models from multi-scale experimental data for composite structures in space launch and reentry systems, and commercial airliners. For interdisciplinary research, he is developing a carbon-fiber composite rotor sleeve for high-performance electric motors with NSF funds. Dr. Kim earned his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering with a focus in Structural Engineering and Mechanics from the University of Washington in 2019 and then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics at the same university for two years.