Principal Investigator

Education

• Ph.D. Department of Information Convergence Engineering , Pusan National University, South Korea (2022.03. - 2026.02.)

• KAIST Graduate School of Quantum Science and Technology (2024.09. - 2026.02.)

• B.S. Department of Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University, South Korea  (2014.03. – 2017.08.) - Early Graduation

Research Experiences

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Pusan National University, South Korea (2026.03. - 2026.08.)

• Research Intern, D-Wave Systems, Canada (Via PNU Research Project)

• Research Student, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Japan. (2022.12. - 2022.12.)

• Military Service, Military Science and Technology Soldier, Army Research Center for Future & Innovation, (2018.11. - 2020.05)

Research Interest

• Quantum Annealing (Optimization, Noise Modeling, Annealing Scheduling, Minor Embedding)

• Quantum Machine Learning (Hybrid Quantum Machine Learning Algorithms)

• On-Device AI (TinyML Algorithm, AI Agent)

Invited Talks

• "Quantum Optimization - Quantum Advantage for Port of Busan Logistics", Qubits 2025, D-Wave, USA. (https://youtube.com/watch?v=3jxb6YNLKgI$\&$si=p45cwmgiubFEavHS)

• "Quantum Advantage for Logistic Optimization (QALO): Quantum Solution for Operations of the Busan Port Terminal", YONSEI QUANTUM WEEK 2025, South Korea.  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wiz0BKLWySM$\&$t=$14117$s)

• "Quantum Annealing for Port Logistics Optimization", D-Wave x BTQ: Quantum Meets Industry, Trade and Invest B.C., webinar.

• "Quantum Annealing for Port Logistics Optimization", Technical Seminar, ISO TC8 SC27, South Korea.

• "Quantum Annealing Tutorial", Korea Quantum Computing, Busan, South Korea. 

• "Quatum Annealing Tutorial", Megazone Cloud, Seoul, South Korea.

• "Quantum Computing Seminar", Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea.

• "Quantum Computing Seminar", UNIST, Ulsan, South Korea.

Awards and Acheivements

• Winner, Quantum Innovation Challenge 2025, European Quantum Technologies Conference 2025 (EQTC) in Copenhagen. (2026.05.)

• Outstanding Research Award (1rd), BK21 Program, Pusan National University. (2026.02.)

• President’s Award of BISTEP,  Awarded for Excellent R&D Achievement in Busan, Busan Institute of Science & Technology and Higher Education Promotion. (2025.02.)

• Outstanding Research Award (2rd), BK21 Program, Pusan National University. ( 2024.02.)

• Outstanding Paper, Korea Software Congress. (2023.12.)

• Encouragement Award (3rd), Student-led Research Project, Pusan National University. (2023.12.)

Academic Activities

• Future Generation Computer Systems Reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Reivewer

• IEEE Internet of Things Journal Reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing Reviewer

• IEEE Communications Letters Reviewer

• IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society Reviewer

• IEEE Access Reviewer

• Scientific Reports Reviewer

• AAAI (Invited External) Reviewer