Education
Mar. 1998 – Feb. 2003, Ph. D. , Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology ( KAIST ), South Korea (Advisor: Prof. Chang Hee Nam )
Mar. 1996 – Feb. 1998, M. S. , Department of Physics, KAIST (Advisor: Prof. Chang Hee Nam)
Mar. 1992 – Feb. 1996, B. S. , Department of Physics, KAIST (Advisor: Prof. Hong Jin Kong)
Research Career
July 2018 – present, Member of Technical Staff , MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Division 8, Group 82 Laser Technology and Applications
July 2012 – present, Principal Research Scientist and Principal Investigator , Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics and Sensing (UNOS) group, Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
June 2015 – June 2018, Associate Research Professor, joint appointment, Arizona State University, USA
July 2007 – June 2012, Research Scientist , Optics and Quantum Electronics (OQE) group, RLE, MIT, USA (Group Leader: Prof. Franz X. Kärtner )
Aug. 2003 – July 2007, Senior Research Scientist , Advanced Photonics Research Institute(APRI) , Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea (Director: Prof. Jongmin Lee)
Sep. 2003 – Dec. 2004, Postdoctoral Research Fellow , Center for Ultrafast Optical Sciences(CUOS) , Univ. of Michigan, USA (Advisor: Prof. Gerard A. Mourou 2018 - Nobel Physics Prize Laureate, co-advisor: John A. Nees)
Mar. 2003 – Aug. 2003, Postdoctoral Researcher , Department of Physics and CXRC, KAIST, South Korea (Advisor: Prof. Chang Hee Nam)
Professional Activities
Professional Membership : Optica (formerly Optical Society of America, Senior Member), American Physical Society (APS) Div. of Laser Science (DLS), Association of Korean Physicist in America (AKPA), IEEE Photonics Society
Editorial Board : High Power Laser Science and Engineering (Cambridge University Press Journal) - Topical Editor, 2015-2022
Reviewer of Scientific Journals :
Optics Letters, Optics Express, Optica, Applied Optics, Optical Material Express (OSA journals)
Nature Photonics, Nature Communications (Nature-Springer journals)
Optics Communications , Optics and Laser Technology (Elsevier journals)
Applied Physic s B (Springer), Journal of Applied Physics (AIP journal)
IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electronics, IEEE Photonics Journal (IEEE)
Laser and Photonics Review, Laser Physics Letters (Wiley)
Reviewer of Grant Proposals (USA) :
Army Research Office (ARO), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), NASA, Department of Energy (DOE)
Collaborators from MIT projects
- Prof. Franz X. Kaertner (Ultrafast Optics and X-rays group head)
- Prof. Erich P. Ippen, Prof. James G. Fujimoto (Optics and Quantum Electronics group)
- Dr. Oliver Muecke (CFEL, DESY, Germany)
- Prof. William Graves (Arizona State University, AZ)
- Prof. Chii-Dong Lin, Dr. Ahn-Thu Le (Kansas State Univ., KS)
- Prof. Bonggu Shim (SUNY, Binghamton, NY)
- Prof. Jeffrey Moses (Cornell Univ., NY)
- Prof. Sergey Mirov (Univ. Alabama, Birmingham, AL)
- Drs. Houkun Liang, Liang Jie Wong, Ying Zhang (SIMTech, Singapore)
- Prof. Cheng Jin (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China)