
People
Principal investigator

Wonshik Choi, PhD
Positions and employments
2024.08 ~ present Director, Center for Deep Optical Imaging
2017.09 ~ present Professor, Department of Physics, Korea University, Seoul Korea
2016.07 ~ 2024.07 Associate Director, Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Institute for Basic Science, Korea
2012.09 ~ 2017.08 Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Korea University, Seoul Korea
2009.09 ~ 2012.08 Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Korea University, Seoul Korea
Educational background
B.S (1997), M.S (1999) and Ph. D. (2004) in Physics, Seoul National University, Korea
2004 ~ 2005 Postdoctoral associate, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
2006 ~ 2009 Postdoctoral associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Professional activities
2024.03 ~ present Associate Editor, Optica
2022.03 ~ 2024.02 Editor-in-Chief, Current Optics and Photonics
2017.02 ~ present Editorial Board member, Scientific Reports
2010.08 ~ 2016.08 Associate Editor for Biomedical Optics Express (published by Optical Society of America)
2013.03 ~ 2015.02 Executive Editor for Journal of Optical Society of Korea
Honors and awards
2023 Elected to the fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (한국과학기술한림원 정회원)
2020 Academic award in the Optical Society of Korea (한국광학회 학술대상)
2020 Top 100 excellent R&D achievements (국가연구개발 우수성과 100선 선정)
2019 Elected to the fellow of Optica
Research fellows

Jin Hee Hong
jin.h.hong@gmail.com

Sungsam Kang
kssam01@gmail.com

Young-Ho Jin

Kalpak Gupta

Taeil Yoon
taeil021@korea.ac.kr
Graduate students

Dong-Young Kim

Ye-Chan Cho

NGUYEN THI VAN ANH

Thinh Tran Le

Jaechul Cho

Jeongwon Youm

Juntaek Oh

Su-Min Lim

Tran Dinh Hoang
trandinhhoang@korea.ac.kr

Eunyoung Seong
s081209@naver.com
Alumni
Researchers trained in our lab often move into university, national research institutes, or corporate R&D. Recently, more graduates are joining top semiconductor companies like Samsung and ASML due to the growing importance of optical inspection in semiconductor industry.

Youngwoon Choi
Korea Univ.

Moonseok Kim
Catholic Univ.

Donggyu Kim
MIT, KAIST

Sungsoo Woo
GERI

Junmo Ahn

Eunsung Seo
Samsung

Hakseok Ko
KAIST

Yonghyeon Jo
Samsung

Pilsung Kang
GERI

Wonjun Choi
iovis

Junghoon Kim
ZEISS

Munkyu Kang
UC Berkeley

Mooseok Jang
KAIST

Seungwon Jeong
Johns Hopkins

Changsoon Choi
Caltech

Changhyeong Yoon
Samsung

Hojun Lee
Samsung

Kyung-Deok Song
LG Innotek

Seokchan Yoon
Pusan National Univ.

Ye-Ryoung Lee
Konkuk Univ.

Yongwoo Kwon
ASML

Jungho Moon
Samsung

Se Ho Kim
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign