CV

Last update: Dec 1, 2025 [PDF]

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Education and Experience

• Postdoctoral Researcher / Sept 2022 - Present
  Stanford University, US
  Advisor: Prof. Gordon Wetzstein

• Postdoctoral Researcher / Sept 2021 - Aug 2022
  Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
  Advisor: Prof. Byoungho Lee
  Alternative military service until Aug 2022

• Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering / Sept 2015 - Aug 2021
  Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
  Advisor: Prof. Byoungho Lee

• B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering & B.S. in Physics / Mar 2011 - Feb 2015
  Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
  Advisor: Prof. Byoungho Lee and Prof. DaiSik Kim

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Honors & Awards

• NRF Postdoctoral Fellowship
  Nuturing Next-generation Researchers Program, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), 2022.
• Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award
  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, 2021.
• Best Graduate Student Award
  Seoul National University, 2021.
• Doyeon Academic Paper Award
  Inter-university Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University, 2020.
• Best Paper Award of 2020
  WILEY ETRI Journal, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), 2020.
• SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship
  International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), USA, 2020.
• Best Paper Award
  Conference on Optoelectronics and Optical Communications, Daegu, Korea, June 2018.
• Incubic/Milton Chang Award
  Optical Society of America (OSA), Washington, USA, 2017.
• Emil-Wolf Award - Finalist
  Optical Society of America (OSA), Washington, USA, 2017.
• Best Paper Award
  META’17 (The 8th international conference on metamaterials, photonic crystals and plasmonics), Incheon, Korea, July 2017.
• Best Paper Award
  International Conference on Optical and Photonic Engineering (icOPEN 2016), Chengdu, China, Sept. 2016.
• Best Student Award
  International Conference on Optical and Photonic Engineering (icOPEN 2016), Chengdu, China, Sept. 2016.
• Best Paper Award – Grand Prize (1st place out of 600 papers)
  Nano Korea 2016, Ilsan, Korea, July 2016.

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Invited Talks

• Stanford SCIEN Colloquium, Invited Talk, May 2025
  Nanophotonics and AI for display and imaging system applications
• SID Display Week 2025, Invited Talk, May 2025
  Nanophotonics and AI for augmented reality and imaging applications
• KAIST, Seminar, Sept 2024
  Nanophotonics and AI for AR displays and imaging applications
• Seoul National University, Seminar, Sept 2024
  Nanophotonics and AI for AR displays and imaging applications
• KIST (Korea Institute of Science and Technology), Seminar, Sept 2024
  Nanophotonics and AI for AR displays and imaging applications
• Apple, Seminar, Aug 2024
  Full-color 3D holographic augmented reality displays with metasurface waveguides
• Synopsys, Seminar, June 2024
  3D holographic AR glasses with metasurface waveguides
• Stanford University, Talk invited by Prof. Mark Brongersma, June 2024
  3D holographic AR glasses with metasurface waveguides
• Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Seminar invited by Prof. Seung-Hwan Baek and Prof. Junsuk Rho, Feb 2024
  Recent advances in Meta-optics for imaging and AR/VR devices
• Samsung Research, Seminar, Feb 2024
  Recent advances in Meta-Optics for imaging and AR/VR devices
• Samsung Advanced Instituite of Technology (SAIT), Seminar, Feb 2024
  Nanophotonics for optical imaging and displays
• Seoul National University, GoGE Workshop, Oct 2023
  Metasurface Optics for next-generation displays
• Stanford University, Talk invited by Prof. Mark Brongersma, Oct 2022
  Metasurface Optics towards next-generation imaging systems
• Synopsys, Seminar, Sept 2022
  Meta-Optics: Fundamentals and Design methods
• Stanford University, Talk invited by Prof. Gordon Wetzstein, Feb 2022
  Metasurface optics towards next-generation imaging systems

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Professional Service

• Journal Reviewer
  Nature, Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering, Science Advances, Light: Science & Applications, Optica, npj Nanophotonics, Optics Express, Optics Letters, ACS Photonics, Nanophotonics, Scientific Reports
• Conference Reviewer
  ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality

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Skills

• Numerical Simulations
  • Nanophotonics simulations: FEM (COMSOL Multiphysics), RCWA (MATLAB, Python), FDTD (Lumerical), CST Studio
  • Optical simulations: Ray optics simulations (Zemax), Wave Optics simulations (Diffraction calculations with MATLAB and Python)
  • Programming languages: Python, MATLAB
• Optics
  • Laser experiments: Diode-pumped solid state (DPSS) lasers, Tunable lasers with nonlinear crystals, Supercontinuum lasers, Ultrafast lasers
  • Optical imaging: Optical microscopy, Holographic microscopy, Optical display systems for VR/AR, Holography with SLMs, Phase contrast microscopy
• Device Fabrication and Characterization
  • Nanofabrication: Focused Ion Beam (FIB) miling, Deposition (E-beam evaporator, PECVD, LPCVD), Reative ion etching (RIE), E-beam lithography, Photolithography
  • Characterization: Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Near-field scanning microscope (NSOM), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Polarimeters, Elipsometry