Incoming Assistant Professor, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
email: kiyoul at seas dot harvard dot edu
Identifiers: Web of Science Research ID AAI-4141-2020, ORCID 0000-0002-0587-3201
Research interest: Integrated Photonic-Electronic systems
Integrated Nonlinear Optics at Quantum or Classical Scale; Integrated Nonlinear Multimode Photonics; Photonic integrated circuits with inverse design; Nanofabrications; Photonic Systems for Computation, Spectroscopy, Sensing, Communications, and Metrology.
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering Caltech (with K.Vahala; Ph.D. thesis) 2017
M.S. in Electrical Engineering KAIST (with K.Choi) 2010
B.A. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science KAIST 2008
Academic Experience
Harvard University Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering 2023-
Stanford University Postdoc/ Research Scientist (with J.Vučković) 2018-2021/ 2021-2022
Caltech Graduate Research Assistant/ Postdoc (with K.Vahala) 2011-2017/ 2017-2018
- Research Visitor:
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (with P.Del'Haye; 2022), UCF CREOL (with P.Delfyett; 2022&2021),
NIST (with S.Diddams; 2014), Imperial College London (with S.Maier; 2010)
Distinctions & Fellowships
Herbert Walther Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light 2022.09
Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award, The Optical Society 2020.09
Nano- and Quantum Science and Engineering Postdoc Fellowship, Stanford University 2018.01
Atwood Graduate Fellowship, Caltech 2010.07
Publication Metrics
h-index > 30, Total citation > 5000, average citations per journal article > 100 (source: google scholar).
42 Peer-reviewed journals (Nature:1, Science: 4, Nature Photonics: 9, Nature Physics: 1, Nature Communications: 6)
Professional Services
Guest Editor of ACS Photonics, Special Issue on Optimized Photonics and Inverse Design 2022
Technical Program Committe at IEEE Photonics Conference 2019 - 2021
Regular reviewer for Nature, Science, Nature Photonics, Science Advances, Optica, Laser & Photonics Reviews, ACS Photonics, Photonics Research, Applied Physics Letters, Optics Letters, IEEE Open Journal of Solid-State Circuits Society, Optics Express, JOSA B, Applied Optics etc.