Hyeon-Il Kim, Postdoctoral Researcher


I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Engineering Mechanics and the Centre for ECO2 Vehicle Design at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
My research areas are operations scheduling, production planning, combinatorial optimization problem, design and operation of manufacturing, environmentally conscious design and manufacturing, sustainable and circular closed-loop supply chain, and operations research applications.

I welcome opportunities to collaborate with researchers and industry practitioners on challenging real-world problems. Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in research collaboration!

Work Experiences

Research Areas

  • Design and Operation of Manufacturing/Service Systems
    • Production Planning and Scheduling, Inventory Management, Process Planning, etc.
  • Environmentally Conscious Design & Manufacturing
    • Disassembly Process Planning and Lot-sizing, Production Planning and Scheduling in Remanufacturing Systems, Value Recovery Options Optimization, Design for Environment, etc.
  • Sustainable and Circular Closed-loop Supply Chain
    • Network Design (Facility Location), Vehicle Routing and Scheduling, etc.
  • Industrial Applications
    • Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems, Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Semiconductor Manufacturing Systems, Fastner Manufacturing Systems, Automatic Guided Vehicle Systems, etc.
  • Applications of Optimization Methodologies
    • Mathematical Programming (LP, IP, NLP), Interpretable Artificial Intelligence, Reinforcement Learning, Meta-heuristics, Matheuristic etc.
  • Applications of Operations Research

Education

Honors & Awards

  • Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award, August 2026
    • Hanyang University
  • Best Presentation Award, August 2023
    • International Congress on Logistics and SCM Systems (ICLS 2023)
  • Academic Achievement Excellence Award (Summa Cum Laude, Top 1%), February 2020
    • Kyungsung University
  • Fully Funded Scholarships, 2014 - 2020
    • Kyungsung University

Talks

  • Combinatorial Optimization Problems in Reverse Supply Chains for End-of-life Products, ECO2 Research Project Presentation Day, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

Professional Activities

  • Invited Reviewer
    • Computers & Industrial Engineering (SCIE)
    • Computers & Operations Research (SCIE)
    • European Journal of Operational Research (SCIE)
    • IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (SCIE)
    • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems (SCIE)
    • IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica (SCIE)
    • International Journal of Production Research (SCIE)
    • International Journal of Production Economics (SCIE)
    • Journal of Manufacturing Systems (SCIE)
    • Production Planning & Control (SCIE)
    • Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing (SCIE)
    • Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review (SCIE)

Programming Skills

  • Languages: Python, C, C++, Java, R
  • Softwares: CPLEX, Gurobi, MATLAB