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Hawoong Jeong
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)

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