Group Leader

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