Photograph of Churlhi Lyi.

I am an InnoCORE postdoctoral fellow affiliated with KAIST and seconded to KRICT, working on the AI-driven Space Solar Initiative. My current research focuses on AI-based materials design and simulation for space solar-cell materials, including AI algorithms for performance and stability prediction and machine-learned interatomic-potential simulations of molecular passivation on perovskite layers.

I received my Ph.D. in Physics, with a focus on solid-state physics, from Sungkyunkwan University under Prof. Youngkuk Kim. Before that, I completed a B.S. at Kyung Hee University with a double major in Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics.

Research Interests

First-principles calculation
Condensed matter theory
Topological materials
Optical response
Strongly correlated electrons
Molecular dynamics
Machine learning
Perovskite solar cells

Selected Publications [see more]

* indicates equal contribution.
Hanoh Lee*, Churlhi Lyi*, Taehee Lee, Hyeonhui Na, Jinyoung Kim, Sangjae Lee, Younsik Kim, Anil Rajapitamahuni, Asish K. Kundu, Elio Vescovo, Byeong-Gyu Park, Changyoung Kim, Charles H. Ahn, Frederick J. Walker, Ji Seop Oh, Bo Gyu Jang, Youngkuk Kim, Byungmin Sohn, Tuson Park
Nature Communications (2026) in press
3 citations
Inkyou Lee*, Churlhi Lyi*, Youngkuk Kim
Current Applied Physics (2026) 81, 38-44
0 citations
Churlhi Lyi, Youngkuk Kim
Nano Letters (2025) 25(16), 6592-6598
5 citations
Hong-Guk Min*, Churlhi Lyi*, Youngkuk Kim
Physical Review B (2022) 106(20), 205153
10 citations