Sung Min Jo is an assistant professor at the UCF Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, specializing in computational hypersonics and plasma physics research and education. He earned his doctoral degree in 2020 from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and later conducted postdoctoral research at the Center for Hypersonics and Entry Systems Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining UCF, he worked as an assistant professor at KAIST. Since joining UCF in 2025, he has led the Hypersonics and Plasma Research Group (HPRG), focusing on uncertainty-aware plasma reaction dynamics, multi-physics coupled numerical methods and space situational awareness.

• Le Maout, V., Jo, S.M., Munafò, A., & Panesi, M., (2025). Numerical investigation of radiative transfers interactions with material ablative response for hypersonic atmospheric entry. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 246, 126999. (Co-first Author)


• Jo, S. M., Venturi, S., Kim, J. G., & Panesi, M. (2023). Rovibrational internal energy transfer and dissociation of high-temperature oxygen mixture. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 158(6).


• Jo, S. M., Venturi, S., Sharma, M. P., Munafò, A., & Panesi, M. (2022). Rovibrational-specific QCT and master equation study on N₂()+O(³P) and NO()+N(⁴S) systems in high-energy collisions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 126(21), 3273-3290.


• Jo, S. M., Panesi, M., & Kim, J. G. (2021). Prediction of shock standoff distance with modified rotational relaxation time of air mixture. Physics of Fluids, 33(4).


• Kim, J. G., & Jo, S. M. (2021). Modification of chemical-kinetic parameters for 11-air species in re-entry flows. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 169, 120950. (Corresponding Author)


• Jo, S. M., Kwon, O. J., & Kim, J. G. (2020). Stagnation-point heating of Fire II with a non-Boltzmann radiation model. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 153, 119566.


• Jo, S. M., Kwon, O. J., & Kim, J. G. (2019). Electronic-state-resolved analysis of high-enthalpy air plasma flows. Physical Review E, 100(3), 033203.


• Jo, S. M., Shim, H., Park, G., Kwon, O. J., & Kim, J. G. (2019). Temperature determination in a shock tube using hydroxyl radical AX band emission. Physics of Fluids, 31(2).