Hong G. Im, KAUST professor of mechanical engineering, has recently been elected as a Combustion Institute Fellow for his outstanding contributions to the fundamental understanding of combustion by combining theory, numerical methods, and high performance computational simulations.

Each year, members of the international combustion community are inducted as Fellows of The Combustion Institute by their peers, in recognition for their outstanding contributions to combustion.

Im is affiliated to the faculty of mechanical engineering and a member of the clean combustion research center in the physical science and engineering division.

He is principal investigator of the Computational Reacting Flow Laboratory (CRFL). He and his group employ various high fidelity simulation capabilities to predict fundamental physics of laminar and turbulent combustion phenomena with an application to laboratory flames and combustion engines.

Im obtained his BS and MS in mechanical engineering from the Seoul National University and his PhD in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton.

Before joining KAUST in 2013, he was a faculty member at the University of Michigan. He has won a number of awards, including the National Science foundation, Career Award and the SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award. 
He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He was also inducted as an International Member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea in 2016 in recognition of his outstanding engineering achievements.

"It is my great honor to be recognized by the Institute along with such a special group of scholars. I am also grateful to KAUST and the brilliant colleagues at CCRC for giving me the exciting new opportunities in cutting edge research towards clean and efficient power generation." He said.