Leading Scientists
Physics
Hawoong Jeong
Professor, Director
Dept of Physics, KAIST/ Center for Complex Systems, KAIST
Education
- Ph.D.: Statistical Physics, Seoul Nat’l Univ., (Doochul Kim), Korea
- M.S.: Statistical Physics, Seoul Nat’l Univ., Korea
- B.S.: Physics, Seoul Nat’l Univ., Korea
Professional Experience
- 2001-Present : Professor, KAIST, Korea
- 2025-Present Fellow: Network Science Society
- 2025-Present President: Korea Academy of Complexity Studies
- 1998-2001 PostDoc/Research Prof.: Univ. of Notre Dame, USA
Honors and Awards
- 2025 Fellow, Network Science Society
- 2012 Young Scientist, Davos World Economic Forum
- 2010 Scientist of the month, Ministry of Education
- 2009 Grand prize for teaching, KAIST
Research Interests
- Complex Systems
- Statistical Physics
- Network Science
- Data Science
- AI for Science
Publications (Max 5)
- "Error and Attack Tolerance of Complex Networks", Nature (2000) [Issue Cover]
- "The Large-scale Organization of Metabolic Networks", Nature (2000)
- "Price of anarchy in transportation networks: Efficiency and optimality control" Phys. Rev. Lett. (2008)
- "Early onset of structural inequality in the formation of collaborative knowledge in all Wikimedia projects" Nature Human Behavior (2019) [Issue Cover]
- "Exploring how deep learning decodes anomalous diffusion via Grad-CAM", Nature Comm. (2026)