Education

• • • Ph.D. in Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA (2013)

    • M.S. in Physics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA (2008)

    • B.S. in Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (2006)

Academic Experience

• • • Associate Professor, SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology (SAINT) and Department of Quantum Information Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (2024.09 - Present)

    • Adjunct researcher, KIST Center for Quantum Information (2023.04 - Present)

    • Assistant/Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Ajou University (2017.09 - 2024.08)

    • Honorary associate, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA (2023.08 - 2024.08)

    • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago (2014 - 2017) & Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA (2016 - 2017)

    • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Davis, CA, USA (2013 - 2014).

Research Interests

• • Quantum information materials and devices

    • Solid-state spin qubits

    • Single-photon emitters

    • Trapped ions

    • Superconducting qubits

  • Dynamics of open quantum systems

    • Decoherence: mechanism and its protection 

    • Entanglement: generation and its control

    • Anomalous surface heating