Dr. Chang-Yong Kim is the founder and Principal Investigator of SynchNova. He brings over 30 years of synchrotron X-ray science and materials characterization expertise built at major national laboratory facilities. His career spans synchrotron beamline science, advanced diffraction techniques, and the quantitative structural analysis of functional materials under real operating conditions.

SynchNova was founded in 2025 to translate this deep domain knowledge into automated, deployable software — making rigorous crystallographic analysis accessible to battery manufacturers, materials researchers, and critical mineral processors worldwide.

The platform reflects a core conviction: physics must constrain every machine learning result. This ensures outputs are not only statistically accurate but crystallographically valid — a distinction that matters when manufacturing quality decisions or research conclusions depend on the analysis.