People

People – Growing Together

We are a young and fast-growing lab rebuilding quantum optics from the ground up — again, stronger.

Principal Investigator

Kyoungsik Kim, Professor, Yonsei University
*World 2% Researchers

Ph.D. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Rebuilding fault-tolerant quantum optics lab

"Students first, papers second, but both will come."

Ph.D Students

Jonghyeok Im

Quantum logic gate with topological photonics, quantum valley Hall effect

Master degree Students

Hyuntae Im

Optical neuromorphic computing experiments , Diffractive deep neural network

Hongjoong Kim

Quantum error correction simulation

Undergraduate Researchers

Seokjun Lee – Senior

Quantum error correction simulation · Surface code threshold calculation

Alumni – Where our people go, Where are they now?

Prof. Monu Nath Baitha (PhD 2024) → Assistant Professor, Vellore Institute of Technology, India
Dr. Yeonhong Kim (PhD 2025) → Post-doc, Yonsei University
Dr. Changwook Kim (PhD 2021) → Samsung Display
Dr. Yunha Ryu (PhD 2018) → LG Display
Dr. Kyuyoung Bae (PhD 2017) → Staff Research Associate, NIST, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Prof. Prince Gupta (Post-doc 2017-2018) → Assistant Professor, Central University of Kashmir, India
Dr. Saraswati Behera (Post-doc 2017) → Research Associate, University of Glasgow, UK
Dr. Minjung Choi (PhD 2017) → LG Display
Dr. Seungwha Baek (PhD 2016) → SK Hynix
Dr. Dongheok Shin (PhD 2016) → CEO, MetaMap
Dr. Gumin Kang (PhD 2015) → KIST, Seoul, 책임연구원
Dr. Haesung Park (PhD 2014) → Samsung Electronics
Dr. Jungmin Lee (ME 2016) → LAM Research, USA (UCLA PhD 2024)
Mr. Jaehoon Kim (ME 2012) → LG Innotek
Mr. Jinho Lee (ME 2014) → Samsung Electronics

Interested? Contact kks@yonsei.ac.kr or see Join Us!

Last updated: March 2026

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