Group Leader
Profile of Suyong Choi
Profile of Suyong Choi
Education
- B.Sc, M. Sc. in Physics from Seoul National University
- Ph.D. in 1999 from Seoul National University. Thesis title: Measurement of Top Quark Spin Correlations from pp-bar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV
Professional career
- Full professor at Korea University, Korea (2013-Now)
- Associate professor at Korea University, Korea (2010-2013)
- Associate professor at Sungkyunkwan University, Korea (2009-2010)
- Assistant professor at Sungkyunkwan University, Korea (2005-2008)
- Postdoctoral Researcher at University of California, Riverside (1999-2005)
Research profile
CMS experiment - Member of the collaboration since 2008
- Deputy chair of the Collaboration Board (2016-2017)
- Top quark differential cross sections measurement
- tt-bar+bb-bar production
D-Zero experiment - Member since 1996
- Higgs group co-convener (2004-2006)
- Spin correlations of the top quarks in the tt-bar system
- Z+b production
- Doubly charged Higgs
AMY experiment - Briefly participated in the experiment at KEK, Japan in 1993
- Measurement of the strong coupling constant using Jet Broadening variable
Administration and organization
- Team leader of Korea CMS group and the national representative to CERN CMS RRB (2013-2016)
- Secretary of particle physics division of Korean physical society (2011-2012)
- Editor "Physics and High-Technology" magazine of Korean physical society (2012-2014)
- Co-organizer of "Winter school on collider physics" series (2011-2015)
Courses taught
- Undergraduate courses - Introductory physics for biologists, Introductory physics with calculus, nuclear and particle physics, mathematical physics, modern physics
- Graduate courses - Particle physics, Experimental particle physics, Classical electromagnetism
- Winter school - root analysis course