Chal Park

Experience

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  University of Michigan

  Jan 2009 - Mar 2020

  • Manage Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) efforts within ALMMII/LIFT (US metals manufacturing institute) as the Sr. ICME Analyst• Develop a crystal plasticity subroutine in Deform for local texture prediction in aluminum and titanium alloys (PI: United Technology Corporation and Boeing)• Develop an advance creep subroutine in Abaqus for creep forming of titanium alloy (PI: GKN Aerospace)• Develop a heat transfer boundary condition subroutine in ProCast for controlled solidification investment casting of aluminum alloy (PI: Lockheed Martin)• Provide material model and FEA software consultation to industry members of LIFT• Organize multiple workshops to develop ICME roadmap with industry, research, and government partners of ALMMII/LIFT• Organize ICME workshops Show less • Developed Fortran source codes to simulate coarsening of complex microstructures using the phase-field model• Developed scientific computing programs in MATLAB and IDL to visualize and derive statistical correlations from complex data sets • Developed highly parallel source codes (MPI) to run on high-performance computing clusters (Linux based)• Developed a numerical method (level-set smoothing method) that improves the accuracy of the calculation of interfacial characteristics of the microstructural data (published in a peer-reviewed journal)• Conducted synchrotron-based x-ray tomography of coarsening of Al alloys at the Swiss Light Source at Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland• Took a leave of absence to serve in the Korean Army (21 months) Show less

  • Research Investigator

    Feb 2017 - Mar 2020

  • Postdoctoral Researcher

    Aug 2016 - Jan 2017

  • Graduate Student Research Assistant

    Jan 2009 - Jul 2016
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  Republic of Korea Army

  Dec 2013 - Sept 2015

  Sergeant

  • Served as a squad leader

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  Novelis

  Mar 2020 - now

  Senior Modeling Scientist