Curriculum Vitae
Last updated: December 2025
Education and Experience
Postdoctoral Researcher
September 2022 – PresentStanford University, USA · Advisor: Prof. Gordon Wetzstein
Postdoctoral Researcher
September 2021 – August 2022Seoul National University, Republic of Korea · Advisor: Prof. Byoungho Lee
Alternative military service until August 2022
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
September 2015 – August 2021Seoul National University, Republic of Korea · Advisor: Prof. Byoungho Lee
B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering & B.S. in Physics
March 2011 – February 2015Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
Honors and Awards
NRF Postdoctoral Fellowship
2022Nurturing Next-generation Researchers Program, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award
2021Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University
Best Graduate Student Award
2021Seoul National University
Doyeon Academic Paper Award
2020Inter-university Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University
Best Paper Award of 2020
2020WILEY ETRI Journal, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)
SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship
2020International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), USA
Incubic/Milton Chang Award
2017Optical Society of America (OSA), Washington, USA
Emil-Wolf Award – Finalist
2017Optical Society of America (OSA), Washington, USA
Best Paper Award – Grand Prize
20161st place out of 600 papers, Nano Korea 2016
Invited Talks and Presentations
Stanford SCIEN Colloquium
May 2025"Nanophotonics and AI for display and imaging system applications"
Society for Information Display (SID) Display Week 2025
May 2025"Nanophotonics and AI for Augmented Reality and Imaging Applications"
Seoul National University
Sept 2024"Nanophotonics and AI for AR displays and imaging applications"
KAIST
Sept 2024"Nanophotonics and AI for AR displays and imaging applications"
KIST
Sept 2024"Nanophotonics and AI for AR displays and imaging applications"
Apple
Aug 2024"Full-color 3D holographic augmented reality displays with metasurface waveguides"
Synopsys
Jun 2024"3D holographic AR glasses with metasurface waveguides"
Stanford University
Jun 2024"3D holographic AR glasses with metasurface waveguides" (invited by Prof. Mark Brongersma)
Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Feb 2024"Recent advances in Meta-optics for imaging and AR/VR devices" (invited by Prof. Seung-Hwan Baek and Prof. Junsuk Rho)
Samsung Research
Feb 2024"Recent advances in Meta-Optics for imaging and AR/VR devices"
Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)
Feb 2024"Nanophotonics for optical imaging and displays"
Seoul National University – GoGE Workshop
Oct 2023"Metasurface Optics for next-generation displays"
Stanford University
Oct 2022"Metasurface Optics towards next-generation imaging systems" (invited by Prof. Mark Brongersma)
Synopsys
Sept 2022"Meta-Optics: Fundamentals and Design methods"
Stanford University
Feb 2022"Metasurface optics towards next-generation imaging systems" (invited by Prof. Gordon Wetzstein)
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
Skills
Numerical Simulations
- Nanophotonics: FEM (COMSOL), RCWA (MATLAB, Python), FDTD (Lumerical), CST Studio
- Optical simulations: Ray optics (Zemax), Wave optics (MATLAB, Python)
- Programming: Python, MATLAB
Optics
- Laser experiments: DPSS lasers, Tunable lasers, Supercontinuum lasers, Ultrafast lasers
- Optical imaging: Holographic microscopy, AR/VR display systems, Phase contrast microscopy
Device Fabrication & Characterization
- Nanofabrication: FIB milling, E-beam/PECVD/LPCVD deposition, RIE, E-beam lithography
- Characterization: SEM, NSOM, FTIR, Polarimeters, Ellipsometry