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Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

  - Summa cum laude | Valedictorian, College of Engineering

Education

B.S.     Mar 2013 - Feb 2017

M.S.     Feb 2017 - Feb 2019

Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Engineering (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea

  • Advisor: Prof. Shin-Hyun Kim

Ph.D.     Feb 2019 - Feb 2023

Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Engineering (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea

  • Advisor: Prof. Shin-Hyun Kim

Professional Experiences

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"Rose that never fades away

over thousands of years"

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Photonic-crystal rose  with structural colors

Sci. Adv. 7, eabj8780 (2021)

Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea​

  • PI: Prof. Shin-Hyun Kim

Post-doc researcher    Feb 2023 - Apr 2023

Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

  • PI: Prof. Shu Yang​

Post-doc researcher    May 2023 - Aug 2026

Assistant Professor   Sep 2026 - Present

Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea​​

Honors and Awards

  • Mar 2026 2026 CAS FUTURE LEADERS TOP 100

    • CAS, a division of American Chemical Society (ACS)​

  • Dec 2025 Best Poster Award

    • 2025 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibits

  • May 2025 Post doctoral Fellowship Program

    • National Research Foundation of Korea

    • Selected as one of <100 fellows in all fields of study worldwide

  • May 2024 CiPD Symposium Poster Session Award

    • Penn Medicine & Penn Engineering, ​​University of Pennsylvania

  • Feb 2023 PhD Dissertation Award

    • ​​College of Engineering, KAIST

  • Nov 2022 Excellent Paper Presentation Award (Oral)

    • ​The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry

  • Feb 2022 KAIST’s Top 10 Research Achievements in 2021

    • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

  • Nov 2021 Excellent Paper Presentation Award

    • The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry

  • Feb 2021 27th Samsung Humantech Paper Award Bronze Prize

    • Samsung Electronics

  • Oct 2020 Excellent Poster Presentation Award

    • The Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers

  • Sep 2020 ‘Kim Young Han Global Leader Scholarship Student’

  • Apr 2020 Best Oral Presentation Award

    • ‘The 10th Graduate Student Symposium’, CBE, KAIST

  • Sep 2019 Best Poster Award

    • The International Soft Matter Symposium 2019 and 8th China Soft Matter Day

  • Apr 2019 Excellent Paper Presentation Award (Poster)

    • The Polymer Society of Korea

  • Oct 2018 Excellent Paper Presentation Award (Oral)

    • The Polymer Society of Korea

  • Apr 2018 Best Poster Award

    • ‘The 8th Graduate Student Symposium’, CBE, KAIST

  • Feb 2017 Summa Cum Laude (The Highest Honor in the College of Engineering)

    • Yonsei University

Invited & Conference Talks

INVITED TALKS

  1. “Shape-Specific Alignment Strategies for Liquid Crystal Elastomers: From Colors to Soft Robotics” Innox Early Career Award Webinar (3/2026)

  2. “Multi-Modal Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomer Tubes having High Mechanochromic Sensitivity” 2025 Chinese American Chemical Society Annual Symposium (11/2025)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE TALKS​​

  1. “Yield-Stress-Aided Fabrication of Elastomeric Micro-Balloons via Colloidal Networks for Remote Control of Cerebral Hypoperfusion” Gorden Research Conference (GRC) on Colloidal, Macromolecular and Polyelectrolyte Solutions Poster Presentation (2/2026)

  2. “AI-assisted Multifunctional Soft Materials Lab” 2025 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting, “Meet the New Faculty Candidates Poster Session” Poster presentation (12/2025)

  3. “Liquid Crystal Elastomer Fiber-Based Soft Robots with a High Center of Mass for Octopus-Inspired Versatile Locomotion” 2025 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting Oral presentation (12/2025)

  4. “Additive Manufacturing of Colloidal Bingham Ink for Structural-Color Architectures” 2025 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting Poster presentation (12/2025)

  5. “Multi-Modal Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomer Tubes with High Mechanochromic Sensitivity to Strain” 2025 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting Poster presentation (12/2025)

  6. “Dye-Incorporated Colloidal Photonic Crystal Sensors with Enhanced Colorimetric Sensitivity for Volatile Organic Compound Detection” 2025 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting Poster presentation (12/2025)

  7. “Intelligent Soft Materials: From a Novel Platform to AI Integration with Color and Robotics” 2025 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting (Meet the Candidates Poster Sessions) Poster presentation (11/2025)

  8. “Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomer Tubes with Highly Strain-Sensitive Structural Colors and Adjustable Spatial Configurations” 2025 Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting Oral presentation (4/2025)

  9. “Designing Macroscopic Photonic Surfaces with Controlled Assembly of Polyhedral Emulsion Drops” 2022 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting Oral presentation (12/2022). 

  10. “Direct Writing of Structurally Colored 2D Graphics and 3D Objects Using Colloidal Inks” 2022 Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting Oral presentation (5/2022). 

  11. “Direct-writing of structural-color 2D graphics and 3D architectures with colloidal inks” 2021 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting Oral presentation (12/2021).

  12. “Highly-Customized Direct-Writing of Colloidal Photonic Patterns Using Highly Viscous Dispersion” The 48th World Polymer Congress IUPAC-MACRO2020+ Poster presentation (5/2021).

  13. “Designing Janus Microspheres with Photonic and Plasmonic Faces for Active Color Pixels” 2021 Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting Poster presentation (4/2021).

  14. “Designing Plasmonically colored Janus Microspheres using Particle-Decorated Emulsion Drops” Nano Korea 2020 Oral presentation (7/2020).

  15. “Reconfigurable Photonic Surfaces Assembled by Amphiphilic Photonic Tiles at the Air-Water Interface” 2019 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting Poster presentation (12/2019).

  16. “Interfacial Assembly of Amphiphilic Photonic Tiles” 2019 Soft International Soft Matter Symposium 2019 and 8th China Soft Matter Day Poster presentation (8/2019).

  17. “Highly Flexible Photonic Mirrors Assembled by Amphiphilic Photonic Tiles at Air-Water Interface” Nano Korea 2018 Poster presentation (7/2018).

  18. “Assembly of Amphiphilic Photonic Microdisks at Air-Water Interface” ISChE 2017 Poster presentation (12/2017)

DOMESTIC CONFERENCE TALKS​​

  1. “Structural-Color Coatings created by Adaptive Dense Packing of Emulsion Droplets” The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Oral presentation (10/2022)

  2. “Bioinspired Creation of Reconfigurable Photonic Surfaces through Dense Packing of Emulsion Droplets” The Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers (KIChE) Oral presentation (10/2022)

  3. “Direct Writing of Structurally-Colored 3D Architectures Using Bingham Colloidal Inks” The Polymer Society of Korea Oral presentation (4/2022)

  4. “Electro-Responsive Janus Microspheres Composed of Photonic and Plasmonic Faces” The Polymer Society of Korea Poster presentation (4/2022)

  5. “Pigment-Free Multicolor Drawing Using Colloidal Dispersions” The Polymer Society of Korea Poster presentation (4/2022)

  6. “Direct-writing of viscoelastic colloidal inks for customizable patterns with structural colors” The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Poster presentation Poster presentation (11/2021)

  7. “Structural-Color Patterns Direct-Written with Viscoelastic Colloidal Dispersions” The Polymer Society of Korea Poster presentation (4/2021)

  8. “Janus Microspheres with Plasmonic Colors designed from Pickering-Emulsion Templates” The Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers (KIChE) Poster presentation (10/2020)

  9. “Reconfigurable Photonic Surfaces created by Self-Assembled Amphiphilic Tiles at Air-Water Interfaces” The Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers (KIChE) Oral presentation (4/2019)

  10. “Interfacial Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Tiles for Reconfigurable Photonic Surfaces” The Polymer Society of Korea Poster presentation (10/2018)

  11. “Reconfigurable capsule resonator containing cholesteric liquid crystals” The Polymer Society of Korea Oral presentation (10/2018)

  12. “Capillarity-driven Assembly of Amphiphilic Photonic Tiles at Air-Water Interface” The Polymer Society of Korea Poster presentation (4/2018)

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