Postdoctoral researcher
> Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Education
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)
Awards & Honors
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
Fellowship
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)
Research Experience
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)
Joo Hwan Ko, Postdoctoral researcher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Email joohwan.ko93@gmail.com | jhko@mit.edu