Principal Investigator

Prof. Hyun Ho Lee is currently full professor in Department of Chemical Engineering, Myongji University at Yongin, South Korea. He started high research career in biotechnology including mammalian cell culture, Yeast culture, cell-free translation, and transgenic plant development for his M.S. thesis (in 1992) at Chemical Technology Department of Seoul National University and as a research assistant at Forest Genetics Research Institute of Korean Government until 1997, respectively. In late September 1997, he moved to U.S. for his PhD degree, at first, in Stanford University ending up with additional M.S. degree of Chemical Engineering. Eventually, he received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University in 2004. He started his solid-state research career under Professor Yue Kuo at Texas A&M University in the U.S. to develop Thin Film Transistor based electrophoresis device. After his completion of Ph.D. degree, he moved to the University of Washington, Seattle for his senior fellow position. He developed NASA-JPL driven microfluidic DNA microarray platforms at Professor Paul Yager group with a joint of Professor David Stahl group from 2005 to 2006. In 2006, returning to South Korea, he joined the Advanced OLED team of Samsung SDI (currently Samsung Display Co.) corporate research center as senior researcher to develop large-sized AMOLED display. Then, he started his academic career as assistant professor at Myongji University in 2007 leading the Nano Process & Device Lab continuing his research journeys. He have been educating 30  M.S. students and 3 Ph.D. students under his main supervision.  He was a visiting professor at Young-Wook Jun’s Lab at University of California, San Francisco in 2013 for his research (sabbatical) year. Now, Prof. Hyun Ho Lee's research interests include bioelectronics, stress hormone biosensor, nanoparticle-based memory, microplastic nanoplastic sensor, QD-LED, and resistive switching or synaptic or neuromorphic device.

Recently, he had served as Secretary General at the Korean BioChip Society in 2018, and also served as Program Chair in 2022, Secretary General at the Korean Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering in 2024, respectively. He also has served as a co-senior editorial board member in Advances in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry journal. He was a Program Chair at IEEE-NANOMED 2016 @Macao.