Our Team

Education

• PhD, Duke University, 2015-2020, Electrical and Computer Engineering  (under Prof. David Smith)

     * My PhD dissertation can be found here.

• MS, Yonsei University, 2009-2011, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

• BS, Yonsei University, 2005-2009, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Professional & Research Experience

• Assistant Professor, Yonsei University, 2024-present

• Assistant Professor, Incheon National University, 2023

• Research Scientist, Metacept Systems, 2023

• Research Scientist, Duke University, 2023

• Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University, 2021-2022

• Graduate Research Assistant, Duke University, 2015-2020

• Research Assistant, Natural Science Research Institute at Yonsei University, 2013-2014

• Assistant Manager, LG Uplus Corp., 2011-2013

• Graduate Research Assistant, Yonsei University, 2009-2011

Current Research Projects

• "Wave-based Computing Metasurface Transceiver for Intelligent Extreme Large-scale Massive MIMO Communication Systems", funded by NRF (National Research Foundation of Korea), Outstanding Early Career Research Grant, 2025-2028

• Building Korea-EU Collaborative Research Program for the Study of Machine-Learned Metasurfaces for Communication and Sensing in Next-Generation 6G D2D Communication LEO Inter-Satellite Link Backhaul Network (ISL) System", funded by NRF (National Research Foundation of Korea), 2024-2025

Previous Research Projects

• Next-generation Metasurfaces (tentative title), funded by Kymeta Corporation, 2023

• "Metasurface Antenna for Cloud-Targeting Radar (MACTRad): W-Band Metasurface Cloud Sensor", funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) ACT, 2022

• "Beam-Steering Metasurface Antenna for Lunar Soil Moisture Sensing", funded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) STTR 2019 Phase I and II

• "Project Stratum: Enabling Rapid Revisit with Satellite Metasurface Microwave Antenna Technology", funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), 2021

• "Wireless Communications with Metamaterial-Based Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Fundamentals, Optimization, and Experimentation", funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), 2021

• "Extending the Coupled Dipole Model for Metasurface Antenna Design", funded by Kymeta Corporation, 2020

• "Dynamically Reconfigurable, Conformal, Metasurface Apertures for Communications and Sensing Applications in Aerospace Platforms", funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), 2018