Academic Profile
- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley (Nov. 1993)
- M.S. in Electronics Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (Feb. 1989)
- B.S. in Electronics Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (Feb. 1987)
Professional Experience
- From Sep. 1994 to present, Faculty, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Seoul National University. Became a full professor in October 2005.
- July 2009 ~ July 2010, Visiting Professor, Stanford University, CA, USA
- July 2002 ~ July 2003, Visiting Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- Other visiting faculty experiences: University of Connecticut, Swinburne University of Technology (Australia), University of New South Wales (Australia), Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)
Other Activities
- Dec. 2012 ~ present, Topical Editor, Optics Letters
- Jan. 2009 ~ present, Strategic Planning Committee, OSA
- Jan. 2012 ~ present, Chair, Members and Education Services Council, OSA, Member, Executive Committee, OSA; Member, Finance Committee, OSA
- Jan. 2011 ~ Dec. 2012, Chair, Holography and Diffractive Optics Technical Group, OSA
- Jan. 2006 ~ Dec.2008, Director-at-Large by appointment, OSA
- Jan. 2006 ~ Dec.2008, Award Committee of Board of Directors, OSA
- July 2005 ~ July 2011, Topical Editor, Applied Optics
- Jan. 2012 ~ present, Steering Committee member, CLEO Pacific Rim
- Jan. 2011 ~ Dec. 2011, Program Co-Chair, CLEO Pacific Rim 2011
- Jan. 2009 ~ Dec. 2009, Tate Medal Committee, American Institute of Physcis
- 2007 ~ 2009, General Co-Chair/Chair, OSA Topical Meeting on Digital Holography and Three-Dimensional Imaging
- 2010 ~ present, Advisory Committee, OSA Topical Meeting on Digital Holography and Three-dimensional Imaging
- Jan. 2010 ~ Dec.2011, Local Organizing Committee Chair, The Fifth International Conference on Surface Plasmon Photonics
- Jan. 2008 ~ Dec. 2010, Editor, Applied Optics feature issue on digital Holography and Three-dimensional Imaging
- Jan. 2010 ~ Dec. 2010, Leading Editor, Applied Optics Feature issue on Plasmonic Diffractive Optics and Imaging
- Jan. 2007 ~ Present, Editorial member, Journal of the Society for Information Display
- April 2003 ~ March 2006, Oversea Editor, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
- 2009 ~ 2011, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Optical Society of Korea
- Nov. 2004, General Co-Chair, Holography, Diffractive Optics, and Applications II, Photonics Asia (Beijing, China)
- Currently, Director of Academic Affairs, Optical Society of Korea
- Currently, Director of Publication Affairs, Korean Information Display Society
Honors & Awards
- Nov. 2011, Member, The Korean Academy of Science and Technology
- Jan. 2002, Fellow, SPIE
- Jan. 2005, Fellow, OSA
- Nov. 2011 ~ July 2012, Erasmus Mundus invited scholar
- Scientist of the Month Award of Korea (Sep. 2009)
- The Academic Award, Optical Society of Korea (Feb. 2006)
- Designation as a Creative Research Initiative Center by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of Korea (May 2007)
- The First Shinyang Faculty Academic Award, College of Engineering, Seoul National University (Dec. 2005)
- The 5th Presidential Young Scientist Award of Korea (The single award-winner in the field of electrical and computer engineering, March 4, 2002)
- The Paper Award of the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies (April 27, 2001)
- The Paper Award of the Optical Society of Korea (Feb. 17, 2000)
- Award of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers (Nov. 20, 1999)
- Designation as a National Research Laboratory by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Korea (Oct. 1, 1999)
- 1998 Hae-Dong Paper Award of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea (Nov. 21, 1998)
Research Fields
- Digital holography and 3D imaging
- Plasmonics
- Published more than 310 papers in international journals and presented more than 510 international conference papers including more than 90 invited talks.