Professor

Education

• Ph.D. in School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST (2019-2023) 

  • Excellent Ph.D. Dissertation in College of Engineering

• M.S. in School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST (2017-2019)

• B.S. in School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST (2013-2017)

  • Summa Cum Laude

  • Student exchange program in National University of Singapore

• Sejong Science High School

Work Experiences

• Assistant professor at Seoul National University (2025-)

• Assistant professor at Sogang University (2024-2025)

• Visiting scholar at Harvard University (2023-2024)

• Postdoctoral fellow at Seoul National University (2023-2024)

• Reviewer of Nature Electronics, Nature Communications, Advanced Science, Advanced Materials Technologies, IEEE Electron Device Letters, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, Scientific Reports, Materials Today Chemistry, Neural Processing Letters, etc.

• Teaching assistant (TA) in KAIST (2020-2023)

• SK hynix Internship (2016)

Honors and Awards

• Excellent Ph.D. Dissertation Award in KAIST College of Engineering (2023)

• Excellent Paper Award by KAIST & Samsung Electronics Collaboration (2022)

• Excellent Patent Award by KAIST & Samsung Electronics Collaboration (2022)

• Young-Han Kim Global Leader Scholarship (2022)

• Encouragement Prize in 28th Samsung HumanTech Award  (2022) 

• Excellent Paper Award by KAIST & Samsung Electronics Collaboration (2021)

• Sponsored by Kwanjeong Educational Foundation (2020-2022)

• Excellent Startup Award by the Alumni Association of KAIST (2019)

• Summa Cum Laude in KAIST Electrical Engineering (2017)

Media

• 'Solving Difficult Computing Problems with Neuromorphic Hardware' (2024)

  • Seoul Economics (https://www.sedaily.com/NewsView/2D7ROKAOGU)

  • Chosun Biz (https://biz.chosun.com/science-chosun/science/2024/04/03/7I2ZIMBZOVBSTDON6BHAMJGGRA/), etc.

• 'New Industrial Humanity, Artificial Intelligence' (2022)

  • YTN Science Documentary (https://science.ytn.co.kr/program/program_view.php?s_mcd=1213&s_hcd=&key=202209141006385700&page=1) 

• 'Neuromorphic Module for Mimicry of Olfactory Neuron Presented' (2022)

  • Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) (https://news.kbs.co.kr/news/view.do?ncd=5501313)

  • YTN Science (https://science.ytn.co.kr/program/view.php?mcd=0082&key=202207041714181115), etc.

• 'Neuromorphic Module for Mimicry of Tactile Neuron Presented' (2022)

  • Herald Business Daily (http://mbiz.heraldcorp.com/view.php?ud=20220224000933&a=99)

  • Asia Business Daily (https://www.asiae.co.kr/article/2022022412145820932), etc.

• 'Brain-Inspired Highly Scalable Neuromorphic Hardware Presented' (2021)

  • Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) (https://news.kbs.co.kr/news/view.do?ncd=5249804)

  • YTN Science (https://science.ytn.co.kr/program/program_view.php?s_mcd=0082&s_hcd=&key=202108051614409475)

  • Chosun Ilbo (https://www.chosun.com/economy/science/2021/08/11/2HC6ECDEZREIZJGI5HS3QRAGXQ/)

  • Science Daily (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210805141154.htm)

  • Mirage News (https://www.miragenews.com/brain-inspired-highly-scalable-neuromorphic-608403/)

  • Physics.Org (https://phys.org/news/2021-08-team-brain-inspired-highly-scalable-neuromorphic.html), etc.