Gun-Yeal Lee
Assistant Professor, School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST
I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST. Before joining KAIST in September 2026, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University, working with Prof. Gordon Wetzstein and Prof. Mark Brongersma. I received my Ph.D. from Seoul National University, where I was advised by Prof. Byoungho Lee.
My research explores how to shape and use light to create new interfaces between humans, computers, and physical systems. To this end, I study optics and photonics, with a particular focus on nanophotonics, optical systems engineering, and physics-informed machine learning. By combining these synergistic approaches, my goal is to develop next-generation photonic platforms for human-computer interaction and light-matter interaction in quantum computing, transforming how we see, interact with, and compute with the world.
Research Group
My research group in the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST officially launched in September 2026.
Members
- Minseok Kim MS/PhD Student
- Minwoo Choi MS Student
A dedicated lab website is coming soon! :)
We are recruiting!
I am looking for motivated graduate students and postdocs to join the group. If you are excited about optics and photonics, and their system-level applications in AR glasses, computational displays, and optical/quantum computing systems, please feel free to reach out with your CV.
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