Education

2002 – 2009      Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, USA (Prof. Jeffery G. Saven)

1996 – 1998      M.S. in Chemistry, Yonsei University, Korea (Prof. Yong-Rok Kim)

1992 – 1996      B.S. in Chemistry, Yonsei University, Korea

 

Experience

2024.3 – Present             Associate Professor, SKKU Advanced Institute of Nano Technology (SAINT) & Department of Nano Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea

2014.4 – 2024.2             Research Staff Member, Computational Biology Center, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

2011.3 – 2014.4             Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Computational Biology Center, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA (Prof. Ruhong Zhou)

2010.2 – 2011.3 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, USA (Prof. Jeffery G. Saven)

1998.10 – 2002.1            Full-time Instructor, Department of Chemistry, Republic of Korea Air Force Academy, Korea

1997.10 – 1998.10          Research Assistant, Quantum Optics Group, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), Korea

 

Honors and Awards

Outstanding Accomplishments, “Pioneering Foundation Models and Generative AI for Accelerated Discovery”, IBM, 2023.

Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (the highest technical achievement award of the Global IBM), “Molecular Modeling for Alzheimer’s Disease”, IBM, 2019.

Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, “Novel Nanostructures from small-peptide self-assembly”, IBM, 2018.

Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, “Linear Response Method for Drug Discovery”, IBM, 2018.

Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, “Advances in Protein Science Powered by Blue Gene”, IBM, 2016.

Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, “De novo Design of Nanomedicine: Implications from Nanotoxicity”, IBM, 2014.

 

Research Interest

Generative AI for Therapeutics Design (biologics and small molecule), Computational de Novo Protein Design, Computational drug discovery, Nano-Bio Interface, Nanomedicine, Nanotoxicity, Membrane Protein Dynamics and Mechansim, Molecular Dynamics Simulation, and High-Performance Computing

 

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