Team

The people behind the platform.

Three people, two countries: the originator of MEL theory, the founder building the platform on it, and the strategist connecting Suwon to Berkeley.

James Kim, Ph.D.

Scientific Founder · MEL Theory

CTO, Hyunsung TNC

James Kim is the originator of the Modulated Electron Lattice (MEL) framework, the physics behind SuperMatics; he appears as J. Kim on both MEL papers. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and serves as Chief Technology Officer of Hyunsung TNC, the Suwon materials-science company where MEL was developed. His published work gives the broken-symmetry states of correlated quantum materials a single vocabulary; the framework is patent-protected internationally.

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james@supermatics.io

Davis Rens

Founder

SuperMatics · Berkeley

Davis founded SuperMatics to bring the MEL framework into AI-native materials discovery. He holds dual B.A. degrees in Chemistry and Physics from UC Berkeley, completed in three years, where he worked under Prof. Peidong Yang (LBNL) on inorganic nanomaterials and with Dr. Waqas Khalid at the QB3 / Berkeley Nanofabrication Center on carbon-nanotube devices. Most recently he was a Quantum Systems Engineer on Rigetti Computing's Cryogenic Platforms team. He is a co-author on both MEL papers, arXiv 2512.03368 and 2601.14500.

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davis@supermatics.io

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Charlie Moon

Corporate Strategy

SuperMatics · Hyunsung TNC

Charlie leads corporate strategy, strategic alliances, and international expansion across SuperMatics and Hyunsung TNC. Twenty years of senior operating experience spanning ICT, healthcare, and Silicon Valley, including direct work with global manufacturers, public-sector institutions, and Fortune-class buyers. At SuperMatics he structures the commercial frameworks that turn MEL-generated candidates into industrial deployment, and runs the U.S. – Korea pipeline that connects the lab to the market.

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charlie@supermatics.io

Advisors

We haven’t announced advisors.

The names that matter today are the labs that measure our predictions: active collaborations at UIUC, UC Berkeley, and Georgia Tech, with research discussions underway across additional correlated-electron groups. The validation network →