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Gil Young Cho (PI)
Education
B.A. in Physics, KAIST (2009) [Valedictorian, GPA 4.27/4.30 highest in a class of graduating students.]
PhD in Physics, University of California, Berkeley (2013) [PhD Adviser: Joel E. Moore]
Employments & Positions
ICMT Fellow, Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2013 - 2015) [Mentors: Eduardo Fradkin, Shinsei Ryu, Taylor Hughes]
Postdoctoral Researcher (Alternative Military Duty), KIAS/KAIST (2015 - 2018)
Assistant/Associate Professor, POSTECH (2018 - 2022/2022-2024)
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, KAIST (2024 - present)
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Quantum Science and Technology, KAIST (2024 - present)
Other Positions:
Visiting Fellow, Perimeter institute for theoretical physics, Canada (2017 - 2024)
Associate Member, KIAS, Korea (2018 - Present)
Member, Senior Advisory Group, APCTP, Korea (2022 - Present)
Young Member, Korean Academy of Science and Technology, Korea (Y-KAST, 2024 - Present)
양자소재 분과 기술 자문위원, 소재 국가기술전략센터 (2024 - Present)
Theory Team Leader, IBS CALDES, Pohang (2022 - present)
Vice secretary, Division of Condensed Matter Physics (DCMP), Korean Physical Society (2023 - 2024)
이론부문 교육홍보이사, 한국초전도저온학회 (2024-2025)
전문위원(Review Board), 한국연구재단 (2025-2027)
평의원(Fellow), 한국물리학회, Korean Physical Society (2026 - Present)
Editor, AAPPS Bulletin (2026 - 2029)
Selected Honors, Prizes and Awards
Presidential Award ("대통령 상"), President of South Korea, Korea (2009)
KITP Graduate Fellowship, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, US (2011)
Jackson C. Koo Award, UC Berkeley, US (2013)
ICMT Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US (2013 - 2015)
Best Lecturer Award ("우수 강의상"), Physics Department, POSTECH (2019)
Rising Physicist Award ("신진 물리학자 상"), Korean Physical Society, Korea (2021)
This month's Science, Technology, and Researcher Award ("이달의 과학기술인 상"), National Research Foundation & Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea (2022)
Young Member, Elected, Korean Academy of Science and Technology ("차세대한국과학기술한림원"), Korea (2023)
Office: KI Building (E4), KAIST, #201c
Dr. Donghae Seo
B.A. in Physics, POSTECH (2021)
Visiting Graduate Student, University of Cambridge (2024)
Ph.D in Physics, POSTECH (2026)Honors, Fellowships/Awards, and Papers
"융합 인재 Fellowship" for his graduate study (2021) [Co-adviser: Prof. Hee-Cheol Kim]
"우수발표상" for his excellence in presentation at KPS meeting (2023)
"생애 첫 논문상" for his recent publication in PRB (2024)
"포스테키안 펠로우십" for his graduate study (2025)
"우수논문상" for his PRL (2026)
"민병일 고체이론논문상" for his PRL (2026)Office: KI Building (E4), KAIST, #202
Cheong-Eung Ahn (Graduate Researcher, PhD candidate)
B.A. in Physics, GIST (2021)
Honors, Fellowships/Awards, and Papers
"최우등졸업상" for her highest GPA among the graduates (GIST, 2021)
"생애 첫 논문상" for her recent publication in PRL (2024)
"우수논문상" for her recent PRL (2025)Office: KI Building (E4), KAIST, #202
Seonpyo Kim (Graduate Researcher)
B.A. in Physics, POSTECH (2021)
Honors, Fellowships/Awards, and Papers
"관정 이종환 장학금" for his graduate study (2022)Office: KI Building (E4), KAIST, #202
Chanbeen Lee (Graduate Researcher, PhD candidate)
B.A. in Physics, POSTECH (2022)
Honors, Fellowships/Awards, and Papers
"POSTECHIAN Fellowship (포스테키안 펠로우쉽)" for his graduate study (2023)
"생애첫논문상" for his PRB paper (2026)Office: KI Building (E4), KAIST, #202
Seyoung Jin (Graduate Researcher, PhD candidate)
B.A. in Physics, Mathematics, POSTECH (2022)
Honors, Fellowships/Awards, and Papers
"관정 이종환 장학금" for her graduate study (2023)
"삼성 휴먼 테크 논문 대상" 금상 (2024)
"생애첫논문상" for her recent publications in Nature Communications (2025)
"우수논문상" for her recent publications in Nature Communications (2025)
"소선나눔기금" for her PhD studeis (2025)
"우수 논문상" for her Science Advances (2026)
"우수 논문상" for her Nature Materials (2026)Office: KI Building (E4), KAIST, #202
Minjae Yu (Graduate Researcher)
B.A. in Physics, POSTECH (2023)
M.S. in Physics, POSTECH (2025)Honors, Fellowships/Awards and Papers
"관정 이종환 장학금" for his graduate study (2024)Office: KI Building (E4), KAIST, #202
Dongju Hwang (Graduate Researcher)
B.A. in Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics, POSTECH (2024)
Office: KI Building (E4), KAIST, #202
Soomin Oh (Graduate Researcher)
B.A. in Physics, Mathematics, Electric Engineering, KAIST (2025)
Office: KI Building (E4), KAIST, #202
Jinu Park (Graduate Researcher)
B.S. in Physics, Seoul National University (2024)
M.S. in Physics, Seoul National University (2026)Office: KI Building (E4), KAIST, #202
Inho Choi (Research staff)
BSc in Physics, Electronic Engineering, and Computer Science, HKUST (2023)
MPhil in Physics, HKUST (2025)Office: KI Building (E4), KAIST, #202
Sunwoo Park (Research staff)
M.Sci./B.A. in Physics, Univ. Cambridge (2024)
Office: KI Building (E4), KAIST, #202
Undergraduate Intern Researcher (학부 인턴 연구원)
We are actively recruiting undergraduate intern students. If you are interested, please visit the site & send me an email at gilyoungcho@gmail.com !
Ryan Hyunchae Lee
MIT
Taegon Lee
KAIST
Hyeonseo Lim
POSTECH
Chanwoo Park
KAIST
Taebin Kim
KAIST
Gwon Ryul Han
UNIST
Alumni
Wonjun Lee (Graduate Student, 2020 - 2026): Wonjun was one of the earliest members of our group and the first PhD student to graduate from the group. I have known him since his undergraduate internship with us, during which he completed the work that led to his first-author PRL paper. He has been a truly remarkable student—smart and exceptionally diligent, yet always humble—and I greatly enjoyed working with him over the years. During his time in the group, he contributed to numerous papers, many of which played an important role in shaping and advancing our research. It has been a great privilege to have had the opportunity to work with him, and I am deeply grateful for his many contributions to the group. He will be joining MIT as a postdoctoral researcher.
Gyeoul Lee (Undergraduate, 2024-2026): He was an undergraduate student at UNIST and started his undergraduate internship from his sophmore year. He has spent two to three years in my group and wrote two papers, one of which he was the first author, during his internship. He was a very eager and diligent student. He is now at SK Hynix.
Minyoung You (Postdoc, 2020-2024): He was a postdoc shared with Prof. Hee-Cheol Kim. He has mainly worked on the classifications of anyons and associated TQFTs. He moved to YITP, Japan.
Byungmin Kang (Postdoc, 2018-2022): He was a postdoc at Prof. Kwon Park's group at KIAS but we have closely collaborated for several years while he was at KIAS. The collaborations with him were important in our group's early research, which has been mainly centered around the many-body invariants of topological insulators. He is very friendly and approachable. I have very much enjoyed working with him. He moved to MIT.
Sangjin Lee (Postdoc, 2019 - 2023): He was a postdoc in my group for roughly 3.5 years (hired through APCTP and IBS CALDES) and has theoretically studied possible experimental schemes for detecting topological states. He has a personable character, easy to collborate with, and also is very diligent, strong. I appreciate him very much for his help in stabilizing our group at the very early days. He moved to KIST.
Jongjun Lee (Graduate Student, 2019 - 2021): He was a graudate student in my group and studied the low-energy phenomena of two-dimensional correlated CDW states (which we called "conducting network materials"), which I liked a lot. He has published two PRLs during the relatively short period of his time in my group. He was a diligent, polite student. He moved to Prof. Hyun-Woo Lee's group at POSTECH, studying the spintronics.
We are currently recruiting graduate students and postdocs. Please contact at gilyoungcho(at)gmail.com if you are interested.
We are currently recruiting graduate students and postdocs. Please contact at gilyoungcho(at)gmail.com if you are interested.
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