1991.03-1995.02 B.S in Physics, Seoul National University
1995.09-2000.07 Ph.D in Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (with Prof. Richard M. Martin)
Membership
2023.02-Present IOP Journal of Physics: Materials Editorial Board
2023.03-Present IEEE Nanotechnology Council, Technical Committee on Modeling and Simulation (TC10)
2018.04-Present Korean Physical Society (KPS) Council (Fellow)
Vocational
2023.04-Present Director, EDISON 2.0 Semiconductor Physics Center
2010.06-Present Assistant, Associate, & Full Professor, School of Electrical Engineering & Graduate School of EEWS, KAIST
2006.08-2010.06 Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Seoul 2004.04-2006.07 Assistant Professor, School of Computational Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS)2002.03-2004.03 Postdoctoral Researcher, Materials and Simulation Center, California Institute of Technology, USA (with Prof. William A. Goddard III)2000.08-2002.02 Humboldt fellow, Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Technische Universität München, Germany (with Prof. Andreas Görling)Miscellaneous
2002.09-2002.12 Fellow, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California at Los Angeles1995.08-2000.07 Teaching and research assistant, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2021.12 S-Oil Best PhD Thesis Advisor Award: IT Field Grand Prize (KoreaAcademy of Sciences and Technology & S-Oil Science and Culture Foundation)
2017.07 Nano Korea Research Innovation Award – Minister Award (Ministry of Science, ICT, & Future Planning)
2016.10 KAIST Research, Education, Development, & Business Project Outstanding Achievement (KAIST)
2015.03 Outstanding Achievement Award - EDISON Simulation S/W Development (National Research Foundation)
2011.10 Outstanding Alumni Award (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)
2007.11 Hynix Best Lecture Note Award (Korean Society for Engineering Education)
2006.08 Best Oral Presentation Award (IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference)
2002 Fall IPAM fellowship for the "Mathematics in Nanoscale Science and Engineering" program (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA, U.S.)
2001-2002 Humboldt Fellowship (Humboldt Foundation, Germany)