Yeonghun Lee

Bio

Yeonghun Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics Engineering at Incheon National University and the PI of the Materials and Devices Theory Laboratory. His research group focuses on quantum transport in solids from the viewpoint of condensed matter physics, with applications to semiconductor and quantum technologies. He earned his second PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from The University of Texas at Dallas and subsequently worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a postdoc. Earlier, he received his first PhD in Electronics and Applied Physics from Tokyo Institute of Technology and worked at SK Hynix. He completed his undergraduate studies in Physics at the University of Tsukuba under the Korea–Japan Joint Government Scholarship Program. During his first PhD, he was a JSPS Fellow (DC1).

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

• 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, 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, Japan, 2009

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

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

Honors & 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 Scientists (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

Service

• Chair (학과장), Department of Intelligent Semiconductor Engineering, Incheon National University, Republic of Korea, 2025–Present

• Head (전공주임), Major in Semiconductor Convergence, Department of Electronics Engineering, Incheon National University, Republic of Korea, 2025–Present

• Subcommittee Member (G.  Device & Process Modeling, Simulation and Reliability), Korean Conference on Semiconductors (KCS), 2025–Present

• Program Committee Secretary (4. Semiconductor Physics and Nanoscience) and Program Committee Member (15. Computational Physics for Industry), XXXVII IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics (CCP2026)