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, reverse logistics 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

• Postdoctoral Researcher, 2026.09 -
  • Department of Engineering Mechanics and The Centre of ECO2 Vehicle Design,
    KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
• Lecturer, 2023.09 - 2024.08
  • Department of Industrial Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
    • Undergraduate
      • [INE2009] Linear Programming (Fall 2023)
      • [INE3081] Operation Managements (Spring 2024)
    • Graduate
      • [INE9095] Production Planning and Control (Spring 2024)

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, Design for Environment, etc.
• Forward and Reverse Logistics
  • 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

• Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering
  • Hanyang University, Republic of Korea
  • Production Logistics & Information Lab, Advisor: Prof. Dong-Ho Lee
  • 2022.03 - 2026.08
  • Thesis topic: “Hybrid Flow Shop Scheduling with Reworks under Overlapped Queue Time Limits: Mathematical Models and Static/Dynamic Algorithms”
  • GPA: 4.00/4.5
• M.S. in Industrial Engineering
  • Hanyang University, Republic of Korea
  • Production Logistics & Information Lab, Advisor: Prof. Dong-Ho Lee
  • 2020.03 - 2022.02
  • Thesis topic: “Scheduling Algorithms for Multi-stage Flow Shop Scheduling Problem with Reworks under Overlapped Queue Time Limits”
  • GPA: 4.44/4.5
• B.S. in Industrial and Management Engineering
  • Kyungsung University, Republic of Korea
  • Advisor: Prof. Chang Seong Ko
  • 2014.03 - 2020.02
  • GPA: 4.44/4.5 (Summa cum Laude)

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

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