Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2020)
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea (2010)
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea (2008)

Research interests: Wind and ocean energy systems · Control co-design · Multidisciplinary design optimization · Viscoelastic materials · Surrogate-based optimization · Multiobjective optimization · Computational fluid dynamics

Dr. Yong Hoon Lee received his B.S. (2008, Mechanical Engineering) and M.S. (2010, Mechanical Engineering) from Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea. He received Ph.D. (2020, Mechanical Engineering) from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, under Dr. Randy Ewoldt (ME) and Dr. James Allison (ISE, AE). Before he joined the ESDL, he worked as a CAE and CFD research engineer in Korea Nuclear Engineering and Services Corp. and worked as a lecturer at Masan University. He is currently working as a postdoctoral research associate in ESDL at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a technical lead in two Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (DOE ARPA-E) funded projects, developing a control and plant co-design framework for integrating systems and their design disciplines of large-scale floating offshore wind turbine systems.

Dr. Yong Hoon Lee’s research is engineering design optimization of complex systems. The primary research is investigating engineering design knowledge to support the systematic exploration of new and unconventional designs. His research contributions promote design researchers and engineers to further enhance their design processes by capitalizing on advanced design optimization methodologies that account for complex interactions between disciplinary domains. Understanding interfaces between disciplinary areas opens opportunities for design improvement via a deep understanding of interacting mechanisms across the fields, and the discovery of novel designs and concepts, leading toward unprecedented design innovations. He develops mathematical and computational design methodologies and tools for solving engineering design problems with sophisticated domain interfaces, utilizing his expertise in physics-based computational modeling and simulation-based design optimization. His research goals often involve discovering nonobvious synergy in system performance and benefits by analyzing interdisciplinary design couplings from the system-level viewpoint.

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Satya Ravi Teja Peddada received his Bachelors degree in Instrumentation and Control Engineering in 2015 from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India. He obtained his Masters at UIUC in Systems and Entreprenuerial Engineering in 2018, and his Ph.D. in Systems and Entrepreneurial Engineering in 2021. His research interests include multi-disciplinary dynamic systems design optimization, integrated plant and control system design (co-design),direct transcription and power optimization of mobile electronics. Previously in the ESDL he worked on optimal temperature sensor placement (OTSP) for power electronic systems. His current research interests are in optimal flow control and architecture exploration for fluid based thermal management and optimal packing and routing algortihms for 2D and 3D electro-thermal systems. In addition to researching with ESDL, he is currently affiliated with the Power Optimization of Electro-Thermal Systems NSF Engineering Research Center here at the UIUC.

Main Research Areas:

• Spacecraft Attitude Control
• Intelligent Structures
• Co-design
• Modeling and Simulation

Control Co-Design of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines

B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering – Escuela Politecnica Nacional (2017)
M.Sc. Aerospace Engineering – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2022)

Biography
Dario completed his B.Sc. majoring in Mechanical Engineering at Escuela Politecnica Nacional, Quito-Ecuador in 2017. He has previously collaborated on the development and implementation of parametric models to characterize the aerodynamics and performance of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles. He was awarded as a Fulbright Grantee in 2020, which allow him to start his graduate studies in Aerospace Engineering at UIUC. He is currently collaborating in the implementation of Design Optimization methods applied to Scramjets at the Center for Exascale-enabled Scramjet Design

Research Interests
His interests range from engineering design optimization, high-performance computing, hypersonic propulsion to data science, machine learning, computer vision and UAVs.

• Floating Offshore Wind Turbine project
• Scramjet Design project

Floating Offshore Wind Turbine project