Yeonghun Lee

Bio

Yeonghun Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics Engineering at Incheon National University and also the PI of the Materials and Devices Theory Laboratory. His research group studies materials and devices theory for future semiconductor and quantum technologies. Prior to this, he completed his second PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas and worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a postdoc. He also worked at SK hynix after finishing his first PhD in Electronics and Applied Physics at Tokyo Institute of Technology (now the Institute of Science Tokyo) where his research focused on transport theory and device characterization. During the first PhD, he was a JSPS Fellow (DC1). He finished his undergraduate study in physics at the University of Tsukuba under the Korea-Japan Joint Government Scholarship Program.

Experience

• Associate Professor, Department of Electronics Engineering, Incheon National University, Republic of Korea, 2025-Present

• Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics Engineering, Incheon National University, Republic of Korea, 2021-2025

• Participating Faculty, Department of Intelligent Semiconductor Engineering, Incheon National University, Republic of Korea, 2023-Present

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, 2021

• Senior Engineer, R&D Division, SK hynix, Republic of Korea, 2012-2017

• Visiting Researcher, Advanced Research Center on Electronic Systems "Ercole De Castro," University of Bologna, Italy, 2011

• Intern, Advanced Electronic Materials Center, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan, 2010

Education

• PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA, 2021
  Dissertation: Quantum materials simulations: Excited-state dynamics and quantum transport
  Advisor: Prof. Kyeongjae Cho

• PhD in Electronics and Applied Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology (now the Institute of Science Tokyo), Japan, 2012
  Dissertation: Modeling and simulation of nanowire MOSFETs
  Advisors: Prof. Hiroshi Iwai and Prof. Kenji Natori

• ME in Electronics and Applied Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology (now the Institute of Science Tokyo), Japan, 2009

• BS in Physics, University of Tsukuba, Japan, 2008

• High School Diploma, Jeonnam Science High School, Republic of Korea, 2003

Honors and Awards

• Honorable Mention of the Best Dissertation Award, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2022

• Louis Beecherl, Jr. Graduate Fellowship, 2020-2021

• Stella Kim Memorial Fellowship, 2019-2020

• Poster Presentation Award, Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2019

• JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientist (DC1), 2010-2013

• Seiichi Tejima Overseas-Student Research Award, 2011

• Kajima Ikueikai Scholarship, 2008-2010

• Korea-Japan Joint Government Scholarship Program for the Students in Science and Engineering Departments, 2003-2008