Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) 2020-2024

• Advisor: Prof. Young Min Song

• Thesis: Tailoring light-matter interaction for reconfigurable photonics

M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) 2018-2020

• Advisor: Prof. Young Min Song

• Thesis: Large-area, covert polarization display based on ultra-thin lossy medium

B.S. in Material science and engineering

Inha University 2012-2018

• Honors: full scholarship (GPA: 4.07/4.5)

• Military service (2013.02-2014.11, Korea Marine Corps)

2024 Haerim Un-Chul Paek Information and Communications Award (1st place in EECS)

GIST commencement ceremony, GIST 

2023 Gold Prize, (1st place in session)

Samsung Humantech Paper Award, Samsung Electronics

2023 Best Poster Award

MRS 2023 fall in Symposium EL08 

2020 Encouragement Prize (7th place in session)

 Samsung Humantech Paper Award, Samsung Electronics 

2020 Best Paper Award

OSK, Photonic conference 2020

2024 Sejong Science Fellowship

National Research Foundation of Korea

2024 AI-based Research Fellowship

GIST 

2021 NRF Ph.D. Fellowship

 National Research Foundation of Korea

2012 National Science& Technology Scholarship (full scholarship)

Korea Student Aid Foundation (KOSAF)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Postdoctoral researcher, 2025 – present

• Epitaxial growth for optoelectronics and photonics

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)

Postdoctoral researcher, 2024 – 2025

• Low-powered reconfigurable photonics for free-space optical processor

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)

M.S.-Ph.D. candidate, 2018 – 2024

• Photonics structure based on micro-nano structure for structural coloration and opto-electronic device integration

Inha University 

Undergraduate Researcher, 2016 – 2017

• Development of piezoelectric devices using aerosol depostion (advisor: Prof. Dae-Yong Jeong)