Education 

2014-2018  Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) 

Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering,  Advisor: Prof. Jung, Yeon Sik 

2012-2014  Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) 

M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering,  Advisor: Prof. Jung, Yeon Sik 

2005-2012 Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) 

B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering 

Awards & Honors 

• KIST Researcher of the Month Award, 2025 

• KIST Young Fellow Award, KIST, 2025

• The Science Breakthrough of the Year in the Engineering & Technology (30 Shortlisted applications), Falling Wall Foundation, Germany, 2025

• Emerging Researcher in Material Innovation of the Month, The Korean Institute of Metals and Materials, 2025

• Safety Excellence Award, KIST, Korea, 2025

• UST Outstanding Achievement Award, KIST School, 2024

• UST Outstanding Achievement Award, KIST School, 2023

• e-Science Outstanding Poster Award, Materials Oceania-2023, Nagoya, Japan, 2023

• Best Poster Award, NANO KOREA, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, 2019

• Best Poster Award, International Conference on Electronic Materials and Nanotechnology for Green Environment (ENGE), 2018

• Samsung Human Tech Awards, Bronze Prize (Energy & Environment, Main author), 2018 

• Best Poster Award, The Korean Electrochemical Society, Daejeon, Korea, 2018 

• Best Poster Award, The 23rd Korean Conference on Semiconductors, Gangwon-do, Korea, 2016

• Best Poster Award, NANOPIA, Gyeongsang-do,Korea , 2015

• Honored by Global Doctoral Fellowship, National Research Foundation of Korea, (2015-2018) 

• Best Paper Award, The Optical Society of Korea (Oral presentation), 2014

• The Excellent Paper Award, The Next Generation Lithography (Oral presentation), Korea, 2014

• Samsung Human Tech Awards, Gold Prize (Physical Devices & Process, Co-author), 2013 

• Samsung Human Tech Awards, Silver Prize (Material Science & Process, Co-author), 2013

• Honored by National Science Scholarship, (Full Fund), 2010-2012 

Representative papers (Main author)

• "Mesoporous boron-doped carbon with curved B4C active sites for highly efficient H2O2 electrosynthesis in neutral media and air-supplied environments "
  Adv. Mater., 37, 9, 2415712 (2025) 

• "Higher-Valent Nickel Oxides with Enhanced Two-Electron Oxygen Reduction in Advanced Electro-Fenton System for Organic Pollutants Degradation "
  Appl. Catal. B: Environ., 361 ,124666 (2025) 

• "Arc plasma deposited Co single atom catalysts supported on aligned carbon nanofiber for hydrogen peroxide electrosynthesis and an electro-Fenton process" Carbon Energy, e582 (2024)

• "Machine learning filters out efficient electrocatalysts in the massive ternary alloy space for fuel cells "
  Appl. Catal. B: Environ., 339, 15, 123128 (2023) 

• "Penta Nitrogen Coordinated Cobalt Single Atom Catalysts with Oxygenated Carbon Black for Enhanced Electrochemical H2O2 Synthesis"
  Appl. Catal. B: Environ., 331, 15, 122712 (2023)

• "CO2-Derived Edge-Boron-Doped Hierarchical Porous Carbon Catalysts for Highly Effective Electrochemical H2O2 Production"
  Appl. Catal. B: Environ., 329, 15, 122557 (2023)

• "Conformation-Modulated Three-Dimensional Electrocatalysts for High-Performance Fuel Cell Electrodes"
  Sci. Adv., 7, eabe9083 (2021)

• "Controlling Hot Electron Flux and Catalytic Selectivity with Nanoscale Metal-Oxide Interfaces"
  Nat. Comm., 12, 40 (2021)

• "Amphiphilic Ti Porous Transport Layer for Highly Effective PEM Unitized Regenerative Fuel Cells"
  Sci. Adv., 7, eabf7866 (2021)

• "Synergetic Structural Transformation of Pt Electrocatalyst into Advanced 3D Architectures for Hydrogen Fuel Cells"
  Adv. Mater., 32, 2002210 (2020)

• "High-Performance Corrosion-Resistant Fluorine-Doped Tin Oxide as an Alternative to Carbon Support in Electrodes for PEM Fuel Cells"
  Nano Energy, 65(104008), (2019)

• "Reliable Memristive-Switching Memory Devices Enabled by Densely-Packed Silver Nanocone Arrays as Electric-Field Concentrators"
  ACS Nano, 10(10), 9478−9488 (2016)

• "Eliminating the Trade-Off between the Throughput and Pattern Quality of Sub-15 nm Directed Self-Assembly via Warm Solvent Annealing"
  Adv. Funct. Mater., 25(2), 306-315 (2015)