Principal Investigator

Educational and Professional Career

Jul 2023 - Present Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, KAIST, South Korea

Nov 2017 - Jun 2023 Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, USA

Nov 2017 - Jun 2023 Postdoctoral Researcher, Neurology and Rehabilitation Service, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, USA

Jun 2017 - Nov 2017 Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Biomedical engineering, Hanyang University, South Korea

Feb 2010 - Feb 2017 Ph.D., Dept. of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST, South Korea

Feb 2010 - Feb 2017 Renaissance Program, KAIST, South Korea

Mar 2006 - Feb 2010 B.S., Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Hanyang University, South Korea

Awards and Honors

2023 POSCO Science Fellowship, POSCO TJ Park Foundation

2022 Award for the Excellent BME Presentation, US Korea Conference (UKC)

2022 Award for the Best Flash Talk, Korean Life Scientists in the Bay Area (KOLIS)

2021 KOLIS Fellowship, Korean Life Scientists in the Bay Area (KOLIS)

2020 Award for Excellent Research (for NRF grant 2018R1A6A3A03013031), Ministry of Education South Korea

2019 Postdoctoral Fellow Award, Association of Korean Neuroscientists (AKN)

2017 Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST

2010 - 2017 National Scholarship, Ministry of Science and Technology

2010 Award for Summa Cum Laude (undergraduate), Hanyang University

2006 - 2009 Excellent Grade Scholarship (every semester), Hanyang University

2008 Award for Outstanding Work-Study (The second place in the competition with the title of Globalization of Korean Biomedical Engineering), Hanyang University

2008 Student Research Scholarship, Center for Bio-Artificial Muscle, Hanyang University