2021 -
Currently, I am a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in Ulsan, South Korea. UNIST is one of the 4 research-focused national universities in South Korea. It is located in Ulsan, which is in the industrial heartland of South Korea. Ulsan is home to the world’s largest shipyard and the world’s largest (by production number) car manufacturing plant, and also has the highest GDP per capita in South Korea.
Photo: Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
(Main Campus)
2019 - 2021
Before joining UNIST as an assistant professor, I was a Senior Researcher at the AI Advanced Research Lab at Samsung SDS in the Samsung R&D Center in Seoul, South Korea. At Samsung SDS, I worked on various applications of AI and Machine Learning to products and services provided by affiliates of the Samsung Group.
Photo: Samsung Seoul R&D Campus
2017 - 2019
My first faculty position as a tenure-track assistant professor was at the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. At Tsinghua University, I taught a graduate course in String Theory (spring semester 2018) and a undergraduate course in Calculus I (fall semester 2018).
Photo: Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2013 - 2017
My first postdoctoral position was at the Korea Institute of Advanced Study (KIAS) in Seoul, South Korea, where I was a postdoctoral research fellow from 2013 until 2016. My host at KIAS was Professor Piljin Yi. My second postdoctoral position was in the Theoretical Physics Group at the Angstrom Laboratory at Uppsala University in Sweden, where I stayed until 2017. My host at Uppsala University was Professor Guido Festuccia.
Photo: Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), Seoul, Korea
2009 - 2013
Under the supervision of Professor Amihay Hanany, I obtained my Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics as part of the Theoretical Physics Group in the Blackett Laboratory at Imperial College London in 2013. During my Ph.D., I have also worked with Professor Dimitri Vvedensky in the Condensed Matter Physics Group at Imperial College London.
Photo: Theoretical Physics Group, Imperial College London, UK
2005 - 2009
I obtained a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London in the United Kingdom in 2008. With the support of the Cambridge Overseas Trust, I finished Part III of the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos (Master of Advanced Study in Mathematics) at the University of Cambridge as a member of Trinity College in 2009.
Photo: University of Cambridge, UK
Before 2005
I was born in Seodaemun-Gu, Seoul, South Korea in 1987. I attended high school as a Kurt Hahn Scholarship recipient the international boarding school Schule Schloss Salem in Germany, where I obtained a bilingual (German and English) International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma in 2005.