About me

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the KAIST AI-CRED Institute (AI Co-Research & Education for Innovative Drug). My research combines protein engineering and computational modeling to investigate the biological, chemical, and physical principles underlying biomolecular condensates. My current work focuses on understanding and harnessing the fundamental principles of liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) and self-assembly in biomolecular systems. Using protein engineering approaches, I investigate the mechanisms governing condensed-phase formation and the physicochemical properties of condensed phases, while developing machine-learning frameworks to predict phase-separation behavior. 

More broadly, I aim to elucidate complex biological phenomena at the intersection of AI, chemistry, biology, and physics, with a interest in biosynthesis. My long-term goal is to leverage these interdisciplinary insights to advance disease diagnosis and therapeutic development and to build AI platforms that bridge fundamental science and clinical applications.

Research Experience and Education

• Postdoctoral Researcher, InnoCORE AI-CRED Institute & Natural Science Research Institute (KAIST)
  Mar. 2026 - Present

• Ph.D. (M.S.–Ph.D. Integrated) in Chemistry, KAIST (advised by Prof. Yongwon Jung)
  Mar. 2020 - Feb. 2026 

• Affiliated Researcher in Chemistry, KAIST
  Sep. 2019 - Feb. 2020

• B.S. in Chemistry, KAIST (advised by Prof. Hyunwoo Kim)
  Mar. 2015 - Aug. 2019

• Jul. - Aug.  2017: Exchange student in Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (Summer session, Campus Asia Program)

Publication

†co-first, *corresponding 

Awards and Honors

• Dean’s List, College of Natural Sciences (Top 2 in Department through third year; Mar. 2018)

• Summa Cum Laude at B.S. graduation (Aug. 2019)

• Undergraduate Leadership Mileage Program – Diamond Level (Top 4%; Mar. 2019)

• National Ph. D. Scholarship, Korea Ministry of Science and ICT (2020-2024)

• Hae Seok Jeong Hae-Young Scholarship and Cultural Foundation Award (2020-2022)

Skills

Experimental Techniques

• Expert in gene cloning, recombinant protein expression in E. coli and Streptomyces

• Expert in organic synthesis (including biosynthesis) and purification (TLC, column chromatography)

• Basic skills in mammalian cell culture, transfection, and protein expression

• Expert in size exclusion chromatography (SEC, FPLC), electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA), dynamic light scattering (DLS), confocal laser microscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), UV–Vis Spectrophotometer (including NanoDrop and microplate reader), surface plasmon resonance (SPR), Biolayer Interferometry (BLI)

• Basic operation of Raman confocal microscopy, mass spectrometer, HPLC, NMR, MALS

Programming

• Python, C, R; Machine learning modeling and analysis

Language

• Korean (Native), English (Professional), Japanese (Elementary)