Munwon (Moon) Lim

Munwon Lim has been a Senior Researcher in the Flexible Manufacturing Research Division at the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH) since January 2025. From July 2025 to June 2026, she served as a Senior Expert at the Office of Strategic R&D Planning (OSP), Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources (MOTIR).

She was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Intelligent Big Data Center, Hanyang University, from March to December 2024, and taught Advanced Topics in Industrial Engineering and Computational Statistics at Hanyang University during the same period. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Hanyang University in February 2024.

Her research focuses on AI-based anomaly detection for manufacturing systems, prognostics and health management (PHM) of large-scale sensor data, and data-driven approaches to autonomous manufacturing.

During her doctoral studies at Hanyang University, she served as the research director for a project funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), which aimed to develop an optimal predictive maintenance (PdM) framework for modular production systems. She also received support for global academic activities from the Korea Foundation for Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology (WISET), reflecting her dedication to fostering international collaboration.

Her research achievements were recognized with the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (KSME). Additionally, she was named an Outstanding Graduate Student for her research accomplishments by the Industry-University Cooperation Foundation of Hanyang University in 2020, 2022, and 2023.