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, 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 :
Optica, Optics Letters, Optics Express (Optica); Nature Photonics, Nature Communications (Springer Nature); APL Photonics, Applied Physics Letters (AIP); IEEE JST QE, IEEE Photonics (IEEE); High Power Laser Science and Engineering (Cambridge Univ. Press)
Reviewer of Grant Proposals (USA) :
U. S. Air Force Scientific Research Office (AFOSR), Army Research Office (ARO), Dept. of Energy (DOE) and NASA proposals, European Commission