Education:

• 2009.02 – 2015.08: Ph.D. in Physics (Advisor: Prof. Kee Joo Chang), KAIST 

• 2004.03 – 2009.01: B.S. in Physics, KAIST

• 2002.03 – 2004.02: Hansung Science High School

Professional Experiences:

• 2026.02 - present: Visiting Scientist, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero group, MIT

• 2023.03 - present: Principal Researcher, SAIT

• 2024.01 - 2026.01: Project Manager (Ferroelectric Device), SAIT

• 2019.10 – 2023.02: Staff Researcher, SAIT 

• 2016.04 – 2019.09: Post-doctoral Associate, Shengbai Zhang group, Department of Physics, RPI, Troy, NY, USA 

• 2015.08 – 2016.03: Post-doctoral Associate, Kee Joo Chang group, Department of Physics, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea 

Internship Experiences:

• 2008.06 – 2008.08: Internship Student (Advisor: Chi-Ok Hwang), National Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Daejeon, Korea

• 2007.07 – 2007.08: Internship Student (Advisor: Montu Saxena), Quantum matter group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK

Awards and Honors:

• Industry

  • 2026 Jan. 2: SAIT Vision Awards (Best Achievements)

  • 2025 Dec.: DS Patent Award, Samsung Electronics

  • 2024 Jul. 24: DS Paper Award, Samsung Electronics

  • 2023 Oct. 24: Gold Award, Samsung Best Paper Awards  

  • 2021 Oct. 25: Grand Award, Samsung Best Paper Awards 

  • 2021 Oct. 21: DS Patent Award, Samsung Electronics

• Academia

  • 2022 Jun. 1: Young Ferroelectric Investigator, IEEE-ISAF

  • 2016 Jan. 20: Excellent Poster Award, The 3rd Muju International Winter School Series, Muju, Korea

  • 2014 May 25: Best Oral Presentation Award, 2014 Korean Physical Society Spring meeting, Daejeon, Korea

  • 2013 Jun. 21: Best Poster Award, The 9th KIAS Electronic Structure Calculation Workshop, Seoul, Korea

  • 2012 Dec. 28: Best Oral Presentation Award, 6th BK21 Young Physicist Workshop, Seoul, Korea