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
Jonghyuk Im
Quantum logic gate with topological photonics, quantum valley Hall effect
Undergraduate Researchers
Hyuntae Im – Senior
Optical neuromorphic computing experiments , Diffractive deep neural network
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, VIPS Delhi , 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 (MS 2016) → USC Post-doc (UCLA PhD 2024)
Mr. Jaehoon Kim (MS 2012) → LG Inotek
Mr. Jinho Lee (MS 2014) → Samsung Electronics
Interested? Contact kks@yonsei.ac.kr or see Join Us!
Last updated: March 2026