Join Us

Graduate admissions and undergraduate research at POLAB.

Training
roadmap

Students grow from programming basics to running an industrial project with a partner company. The path below is what a member typically goes through.

Join the lab2nd–3rd year undergraduates

Basic trainingProgramming, mathematics, IE fundamentals

M.S. programmeResearch topic and first paper

Industry project2–3 partner companies during the degree

Core competenceProblem solving, field experience, expertise

Seminar & study curriculum

PythonSchedulingKnapsack & combinatorial optimizationIP · MIP · CPPandas · NumPyOperations modelling

Texts: Pinedo, Scheduling: Theory, Algorithms, and Systems; Operations Modelling and Scheduling course notes.

Graduate
admissions

We admit M.S. and Ph.D. students to the Division of Systems Management and Engineering. Applicants with a background in industrial engineering, operations research, computer science or mechanical engineering are welcome; what matters most is comfort with mathematical modelling and programming.

Email a CV and transcript to tsyu(at)pknu.ac.kr before the university application period.
Research assistantships are available on funded projects (NRF, NIPA) and industry contracts.

Where members go

KAIST graduate schoolHD Hyundai MipoSamsung Electronics DX / DSNH Nonghyup Bank IT

Undergraduate
research

Undergraduate researchers join from the 2nd or 3rd year and start with the seminar curriculum above before taking part in a project. Contact the professor by email or visit Gaon Bldg. #706-1.