Professional Experiences

Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (2022.9-present)

Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (2019.9-2022.8)

Visiting Professor, Professor Tony Heinz group, Department of Applied Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (2018.3-2019.2)
Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (2015.8-2019.8)
Assistant Professor, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (2011.3-2015.8)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (2008.1-2010.12)

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Education

Ph.D., Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2007.12) 

Doctoral thesis advisor: Professor Theodore B. Norris
M.S., Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2004.4)
B.S., Department of Electrical Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Cum Laude (2002.2)

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Awards

Excellence Education Awards, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University (2025)

Sung-Do Optical Science Awards (성도광과학상), Optical Society of Korea (2023)

Excellence Research Awards, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University (2022) 

Scientist and Engineer Award of This Month (이달의 과학기술인상), Ministry of Science and ICT & National Science Foundation of Korea (2019)
Mid-Career Professor Award, College of Engineering, Yonsei University (2018)
Outstanding Research Achievement Awards, Yonsei University (2018)
LG Yonam Overseas Research Professor Fellowship, LG Yonam Foundation (2018)
Young Research Achievement Awards, Korea Graphene Society (2017)
Haedong Young Engineering Awards, IEEE Korea (2014)
Best Teaching Award, Yonsei University (2012)
Korean Government Studying Abroad Fellowship (2002)

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Activity

Optical Society of America

- Member (2002- present)

American Physical Society

- Member (2002- present)

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

- Member (2002- present)

Optical Society of Korea (한국광학회)

- Fellow (2022.3-present)

- Director of Academic Affairs (2021- present)

- Vice Director of Academic Affairs (2019- 2020)

- Current Optics and Photonics, Associate Editor (2014- present)

The Korean Physical Society (한국물리학회)

- Member in Optics and Quantum Electronics (2014- present)

Materials Research Society of Korea (한국재료학회)

- Member (2012- present)

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers of Korea (대한전자공학회)

- Member (2002- 2013)

Korea Nanotechnology Research Society (나노기술연구협의회)

- Member in nanoscience and information technology (2015- present)

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