Academic and Professional Appointments

• Associate Professor (Sep. 2023–Present): Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University

• Deputy Director (Sep. 2023–Present): Semiconductor-Specialized University (반도체특성화대학사업단 산학연구부단장), 

• Director (May. 2023–Feb. 2025): Semiconductor Major-Track Program (반도체 전공트랙 사업단장)

• Assistant Professor (Sep. 2019–Aug. 2023): Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University

• Postdoctoral research associate (Jan. 2017–Aug. 2019): Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, U.S.A.

• Postdoctoral research associate (Sep. 2016–Dec. 2016): Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University, Korea

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Education

• Ph.D. (Aug. 2016) Seoul National University, Electrical and Computer Engineering / Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award

• MS (Aug. 2012) Seoul National University, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• BS (Aug. 2010) Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Electrical Engineering​

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Professional Activities

• Editor, Discover Nano, Springer Nature (2024.03–Present)

• Committee member of the IKEEE (한국전기전자학회, 2022.01–Present) 

• Program sub-committee member, Quantum Dots, IMID 2025

• Program sub-committee member, Display Front Plane, KMID 2025

• Program sub-committee member, Quantum Dots, IMID 2024

• Program sub-committee member, Display with Free Form Factors, IMID 2024

• Program sub-committee secretary, Display with Free Form Factors, IMID 2023

• Program sub-committee member, Photonics, Imaging and Display, IEEE EDTM 2023

• Program sub-committee member, Quantum Dots, IMID 2022

• Program sub-committee member, Quantum Dots, IMID 2021

• Advisory member on semiconductor technologies, BISTEP (부산산업과학혁신원, Oct. 2021–Mar. 2022)

• Program sub-committee member, Quantum Dots, IMID 2020

• Program sub-committee member, Display and Photonics, NANO KOREA 2020

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Honors and Awards

• Best Poster Award (Aug. 2024), International Meeting on Information Display (IMID) 2024, Busan, Korea

• Best Researcher Award (Feb. 2024), College of Engineering, Pusan National University

• Best Poster Award (Aug. 2023), International Meeting on Information Display (IMID) 2023, Busan, Korea

• Best Poster Award (Mar. 2023), The 7th IEEE Electron Devices Technology and Manufacturing (EDTM), Seoul, Korea

• Best Laboratory (Mar. 2022), Pusan National University

• Best Researcher Award (Feb. 2022), College of Engineering, Pusan National University

• Best Poster Presentation Award (Aug. 2018), Conference on Excited State Processes in Electronic and Bio Nanomaterials, Santa Fe, USA

• Do-Yeon Paper Award (Oct. 2016), Inter-university Semiconductor Research Center (ISRC), Seoul National University

• Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award (Aug. 2016), Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University

• The Korean Information Display Society (KIDS) Award Gold (Aug. 2015), International Meeting on Information Display (IMID) 2015, Daegu, Korea

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Peer Review Activities

• Advanced Materials (2023.11, 2023.12, 2024.01), Advanced Optical Materials (2021.11, 2022.06, 2022.12, 2024.04, 2024.07), Light: Science & Applications (2024.08), Lasers and Photonics Review (2024.04), Advanced Functional Materials (2022.02), Science Bulletin (2024.07), Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials (2024.08), Optics Express (2022.05), ACS Applied Nano Materials (2024.02, 2024.06), Nanoscale (2024.06), ACS Photonics (2024.08)