2024 KSEA YIG Award in Science
Dr. Joonhee Choi
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Terman Faculty Fellow in the School of Engineering
Stanford University
Dr. Joonhee Choi is an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering and Terman Faculty Fellow in the School of Engineering at Stanford University since 2023. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) in 2008 and 2010, respectively, and earned his A.M. degree in Physics and Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics (advisor: Professor Mikhail D. Lukin) from Harvard University in 2015 and 2019, respectively. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM) at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2019-2022.
Dr. Choi’s research focuses on engineering the dynamics of quantum many-body systems for both exploring fundamental science and practical quantum applications. Throughout his career, he has made seminal advances in a wide variety of fields ranging from nonlinear nano-optics, ultrafast phenomena, solid-state and atomic physics, and quantum many-body physics to practical applications in quantum metrology, communications, and information processing.
Dr. Choi is a recipient of Samsung Scholarship (2013-2018) and a principal candidate of Fulbright Scholarship in 2012 (waived in favor of the Samsung Scholarship) and received the Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2021 from the Association of Korean Physicists in America (AKPA) and Distinction in Teaching for Teaching Fellows from Harvard University in 2016, among others. So far, he has published 23 journal papers in prestigious journals (including 6 in Nature), presented 46 conference papers, was awarded 4 US patents, gave about 40 invited talks, and wrote two book chapters and articles. His publications have received over 3000+ citations with an h-index of 19.
With the KSEA Young Investigator Grant, Dr. Choi will investigate “the fundamental limits and computational power of large-scale quantum simulators composed of Rydberg atoms”. The successful execution of this proposal will enable quantum scientists and engineers to identify the physical limits for quantum simulation tasks, realize practically useful computational tasks that are beyond the capability of existing classical approaches, and advance the state-of-the-art in classical computing by benchmarking classical algorithms against high-fidelity experimental datasets.
2024 KSEA YIG Award in Engineering
Dr. Dohyun Kim
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Dohyung Kim is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Pennsylvania. He received his B.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Seoul National University in 2012, and Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from University of California, Berkeley in 2018 under the supervision of Professor Peidong Yang. Dr. Kim worked as a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University under the supervision of Professor Matteo Cargnello in 2018-2022.
Dr. Kim’s research interest lies in electrochemistry, surface and interface science, nanomaterials, catalysis, and energy conversion and storage. His Ph.D. work focused on nanoparticle catalysts for the chemical valorization of carbon dioxide. His postdoctoral work focused on heterogeneous catalysis for green chemistry, specifically the high-temperature catalytic production of turquoise hydrogen from methane pyrolysis and the valorization of biomass products by electrochemical methods.
Dr. Kim received several award/honors including the Nanoscale Emerging Investigators 2024, Scialog Fellow in Negative Emissions Science, Hanwha Non-Tenured Faculty Award, Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute Best Thesis Prize, and Gareth Thomas Materials Excellence Award. He was also the recipient of MRS Graduate Student Award (Silver Prize) and a Samsung Scholar during his Ph.D. So far, he has published 30 journal papers in prestigious journals. His publications have received over 10,000+ citations with an h-index of 24. He received 2 patents and 2 pending.
With the KSEA Young Investigator Grant, Dr. Kim will investigate “Innovations in Interfacial Liquid Modifiers for Enhanced CO2 Electroconversion,” with an aim to research and develop the technology for manipulating the interfacial liquid, comprised of the electric double layer near a solid electrode/catalyst and to address the challenge of enhancing the efficiency of CO2 electroconversion. His research will contribute to offering a simple and broadly applicable means for advancing the CO2 electroconversion technology.
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