Best wishes on your new adventures!
June 1, 2024
Jeongmo starts his new career at SK Hynix, and Yundon starts his PhD studies at Leipzig university. Thanks for all the great work and best wishes for your new adventures! Hope you have lots of fun!
Big welcome to Kwanjun!
April 1, 2024
Kwanjun joins our lab as a postdoctoral researcher. Kwanjun received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Korea University and is an expert in retrieving information through aberrations and scattering via the transmission matrix approach as well as developing novel quantitatve phase imaging techniques. His interests is in employing these technologies for direct wavefront shaping applications in live biological samples. Welcome aboard!
New experience abroad for Kibum
March 16, 2024
Kibum will join Prof. Alexander Jesacher's lab at the Medical University of Innsbruck as a visiting postdoctoral scholar. Hope you have a great experience in both research as well as enjoying the totally different culture!
Welcome new lab members!
March 1, 2024
Su Eun and Subeen join our lab as graduate students. Su Eun has interests in developing new imaging tools based on multiphoton microscopy and holography while Subeen has interests in neural mechanisms of social recognition. Subeen is coadvised with Dr. Doyun Lee at the IBS Center for Cognition and Sociality by the UNIST-IBS Neuroscience Scholarship program. Welcome aboard!
Graduation!
Feb 22, 2024
Kibum successfully defended his PhD thesis and received his PhD degree. Big congrats to Dr. Nam!
Su Eun successfully received her bachelor's degree in BME! A big hand to Kibum and Su Eun!
Young Investigator Awards
Nov 2, 2023
Jeongmo and Kyungjin receive the Young Investigator Awards at the SPIE ABC conference. Big congrats!
Changhyun joins our lab
Sep 16, 2023
Changhyun joins our lab as a postdoctoral researcher. Changhyun obtained his PhD in Sungkyunkwan University and is an expert in electromagnetic simulations for metamaterial design. He now has a new passion in developing AI based tools in bio imaging. Welcome aboard!
Welcome new graduate students!
Mar 1, 2023
Soobin and Young-Jin join our lab as graduate students. Soobin has interests in developing new imaging tools based on deep learning while Young-Jin has interests in developing new optogenetic tools for brain science. Young-Jin is coadvised with Dr. Sangkyu Lee at the IBS Center for Cognition and Sociality by the UNIST-IBS Neuroscience Scholarship program. Welcome aboard!
Welcome new interns!
Jan 12, 2023
Su Eun and Gwan Woo join our lab as student interns. Let's have some fun. Welcome aboard!
Young Investigator Award
Nov 11, 2022
Kibum received the Young Investigator Award at the Advanced Biophotonics Conference. Big congrats!
Pieter joins our lab for his internship
Oct 12, 2022
Pieter van Essen, from the Complex Photonics Systems lab at the University of Twente, joins our lab for his Master's internship. Looking forward to having a great time together!
Fellowship awarded
September 1, 2022
Kyungjin receives a PostDoctoral Fellowship from the National Research Foundation. Big congrats!
Tannaz and Kyungjin join our lab
Sep 1, 2022
Tannaz and Kyungjin join our lab. Tannza obtained her Masters in Physics from Shahid Beheshti University with expertise in plasmonic biosensing. Kyungjin obtained his PhD in mechanical engineering at POSTECH and is an expert in optical and acoustic imaging. Welcome aboard!
Best Poster
May 26, 2022
Kibum, Seunghun, and Jeongmo received the best poster award at the IBS-UNIST Symposium. Congrats!
UIRP team
Apr 1, 2022
Chang Min, Seonwoo, Se Eun, and Seungjun join our lab as a UIRP (undergraduate independent research project) team to perform research on image processing. Welcome aboard!
Farewell
November 15, 2021
Taeseong joins JLK as a principal research engineer to lead development of new AI tools for biomedical imaging. Big congrats and best wishes for your new journey!
Fellowship awarded
September 1, 2021
Seunghun receives a PostDoctoral Fellowship from the National Research Foundation. Big congrats!
Jeongmo joins our lab
June 1, 2021
Jeongmo joins our lab as a PostDoctoral researcher. He obtained his PhD in Physics from Ecole Polytechnique and is an expert in nanoparticle synthesis and spectroscopy. Welcome aboard!
Fellowship Awarded
May 4, 2021
Kibum receives a Doctoral Fellowship from the National Research Foundation. Big Congrats!
Eun Hei joins our lab
May 1, 2021
Eun Hei joins our lab as a PostDoctoral researcher. She obtained her PhD in Physics from Korea University and is an expert in nanophotonics. Welcome aboard!
Seunghun joins our lab
March 16, 2021
Seunghun joins our lab as a PostDoctoral researcher. He obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at POSTECH and is an expert in intravital and endomicroscopic imaging based on advanced laser scanning microscopes. Welcome aboard!
Best Poster
November 6, 2020
Kibum received the best poster award at Advanced Biophotonics Conference 2020. Congrats!
Farewell
August 1, 2021
Sejin successfully defended his Master's thesis and joins Envision as an engineer to fulfill his alternative military service. Big congrats and best wishes for your new journey!
Fellowships Awarded
August 19, 2020
Taeseong and Heungjin receive Fellowships from the National Research Foundation. Congratulations on your great achievements!
Heungjin joins our lab
May 18, 2020
Heungjin joins our lab as a PostDoctoral researcher. He obtained his PhD in Biology at Kyoto University and is an expert in behavioral biology with interests in the mammalian mating system. Welcome aboard!
Yundon joins our lab
February 17, 2020
Yundon joins our lab as a researcher. He obtained his Masters in Physics at Kyoto University with expertise in experimental condensed matter physics using inelastic X-ray scattering. Welcome aboard!
New funding
June 01, 2019
We receive funding from the National Research Foundation of Korea to realize 'smart' imaging systems.
Farewell
March 11, 2019
Dongyun has accepted a permanent position at DGIST and will join their physics department. Congratulations and we wish you the best on your new journey!
New visitor
February 25, 2019
Ken from Juntendo University visits our lab. Ken has interests in phase conjugation and holography and will be joining us for the following month. Welcome!
New members
February 25, 2019
Kibom and Sangwon start their graduate studies in our lab. Welcome aboard!
New members
September 01, 2018
Dongyun, Hyoungwon, and Kibom join our lab. Welcome aboard!
Sook Young joins our lab
June 01, 2018
Sook Young joins our lab as a researcher/lab coordinator. Welcome aboard!
Farewell
May 01, 2018
Atul has taken a tenure track position at the National Physical Laboratory in India.
Congrats! Best wishes for your exciting future!
Byungjae and Sejin join our lab
March 01, 2018
Byungjae joins our lab as a researcher. He obtained his Masters in the BME department at Sungkyunkwan University with expertise in MRI and signal processing. Sejin joins our lab as a graduate researcher. He obtained his Bachelors in BME at UNIST and has been conducting undergraduate research studies in our lab. Welcome aboard!
Sangwon and Hyungwon join our lab
January 08, 2018
Hyungwon and Sangwon join our group as undergraduate researchers. Welcome aboard!
Jung-Hoon receives fellowship
October 11, 2017
Jung-Hoon is named as a recipient of the 2018 Posco TJ Park Young Professor Fellowship. This will be a big help in building a strong lab and is a great motivation for us. Congrats!
New funding
September 14, 2017
We receive new funding from the Agency for Defense Development for three years.
New funding
July 01, 2017
We receive funding from the National Research Foundation of Korea for up to five years to realize high resolution mapping of the mouse brain.
Paper published in Nature Methods
May 09, 2017
Jung Hoon's work with Professor Cui on large field of view adaptive optics is published in Nature Methods.
Taeseong joins our lab
April 01, 2017
Taeseong joins our lab as a postdoctoral researcher. He obtained his PhD in engineering from University of Tokyo and is an expert in MRI. Welcome aboard!
Atul joins our lab
February 24, 2017
Atul joins our lab as a PhD student. He obtained his Masters in optics from the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology with expertise in holography. Welcome aboard!
Sejin joins our lab
January 02, 2017
Sejin Jung joins our group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome aboard!
New funding
June 01, 2016
We receive funding from the National Research Foundation of Korea for three years to develop novel adaptive optics imaging technologies.
Bio-Optics Lab opens at UNIST!
March 01, 2016
We open doors to our new lab at UNIST. We are excited to start our investigations in developing new tools for bio-imaging. Welcome!