Professor

[EDUCATION]

2014.02, Ph.D., School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

2010.02, M.S., School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

2008.02, B.S., School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

[PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES]

2023.09-Present, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Kangwon National University, Republic of Korea

2024.09-2025.08, Visiting Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Merced, United States

2018.09-2023.08, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Kangwon National University, Republic of Korea

2016.05-2018.08, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas, United States

2014.03-2016.04, Senior Engineer, Samsung Display, Republic of Korea

[ACTIVITIES: MEMBER]

2025.04-Present, Member, Materials Research Society (MRS) [Link]  

2023.03-Present, Member, The Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers (IEIE), Republic of Korea [Link] 

2022.12-Present, Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) [Link]

2022.10-Present, Member, The Society for Information Display (SID) [Link] 

2021.01-Present, Member, The Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers (KIEEME), Republic of Korea [Link] 

2019.09-Present, Member, Korea Nano-Technology Research Society (KoNTRS), Republic of Korea [Link] 

2018.01-Present, Member, The Korean Information Display Society (KIDS), Republic of Korea [Link] 

[ACTIVITIES: DIRECTOR]

2023.01-2024.12, Director, The Korean Information Display Society (KIDS), Republic of Korea [Link]

2023.01-2023.12, Director, The Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers (IEIE), Republic of Korea [Link] 

2019.01-2019.12, Director, The Korean Information Display Society (KIDS), Republic of Korea

[ACTIVITIES: CONFERENCE]

2025.08-Present, Committee Member, The Korean Meeting on Information Display (KMiD), Republic of Korea [Link] 

2023.01-Present, Research Group Member, The Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers (KIEEME), Republic of Korea [Link] 

2019.10-Present, Committee Member, The Korean Conference on Semiconductors (KCS), Republic of Korea [2020] [2021] [2022] [2023] [2024] [2025] [2026] 

2018.11-Present, Research Group Member, The Korean Information Display Society (KIDS), Republic of Korea [Link] 

2022.06-2023.05, Committee Member, IEEE Electron Devices Technology and Manufacturing (EDTM) Conference 2023 [Link] 

2021.05-2021.12, Committee Member, E-MRS 2021 Fall Meeting, Symposium - (Hf,Zr)O2-based Ferroelectrics: From Fundamentals to Applications [Link] 

2017.05-2017.10, Committee Member, Baltic Conference Series (BCS), Sweden

[ACTIVITIES: EDITOR]

2024.10-Present, Guest Editor, Materials (SCIE), Special Issue on Oxide Semiconductor Materials and Devices [Link] 

2024.01-Present, Editorial Advisory Board, ACS Applied Electronic Materials (SCIE) [Link] 

2020.03-Present, Review Editor, Frontiers in Materials (SCIE), Editorial Board of Semiconducting Materials and Devices [Link] 

2022.01-2022.11, Guest Editor, Materials (SCIE), Special Issue on Atomic Layer Deposition and Atomic Layer Etching [Link] 

2018.07-2021.11, Guest Editor, Materials (SCIE), Special Issue on Atomic Layer Deposition Technique in Material Science [Link] 

2017.10-2018.07, Lead Guest Editor, Advances in Materials Science and Engineering (SCIE), Special Issue on Thin Films for Large-Area Electronic Applications

[ACTIVITIES: KNU]

2022.03-2024.02, Administrator, IT College of Kangwon National University

[AWARDS]

2023-2025, Certificate of Recognition & Appreciation, ACS Publications & Journals

2017, Certificate of Appreciation, KSEA

2016-2017, Outstanding Reviewer for Thin Solid Films

2014, First Prize, Samsung Display Expert Academy Project Contest

2012, Bronze Prize, 7th Fairchild Korea Semiconductor Paper Contest

2011, Outstanding Poster Paper Award, IMID 2011

2011-2014, Doctoral Fellowship funded by Samsung Display

2010-2012, Hi Seoul Science (Humanities) Fellowship funded by Seoul Scholarship Foundation

2009-2010, Master Fellowship funded by LG Display

2008-2009, National Science and Engineering Scholarship funded by Korea Science and Engineering Foundation

2004-2008, National Science and Engineering Scholarship funded by Korea Student Aid Foundation (KOSAF)