Youin Choung

YOUIN CHOUNG, Ph.D. has been team leader at SK HYNIX for 3 years with manufacturing productivity improvement team under DT department. The manufacturing productivity improvement team is responsible for developing and operating of systems related on capacity simulation, factory planning, scheduling, and material control (AMHS software) on FAB and backend line.

Prior to joining SK HYNIX, CHOUNG was a principal engineer and project leader for a semiconductor manufacturing company. During his 18 years at the company, CHOUNG spent developing and operating of systems related on SCM (Master planning, Demand planning, Factory planning etc.), capacity planning, production scheduling and simulation on semiconductor FAB, backend line, and LED line. In addition to, CHOUNG was a research and visiting scholar in Arizona State University, Georgia Institute of Technology in USA, and Ajou University in Korea and visit UC. Berkeley in USA and Ilmenau University of Technology in Germany to work with professors.

CHOUNG received a Ph.D. and Master’s degrees in industrial engineering from KAIST, Korea and a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the SungKyunKwan University, Korea. The title of his Ph.D. thesis is “Production scheduling in a system with batch processing machines”, and he published several research papers in European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Research, Computers and Operations Research, and OR Spectrum.