Education

  2006     Ph.D.      Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, USA

  2004     M.S.        Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, USA 

  2002     B.S.        Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, South Korea

 

Professional Experience

 

  2020 - present     Founder/CEO

                             TeCure, Inc., Busan, Korea

  2019 - present     Professor

                             Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pukyong National University 

  2015 - 2018        Associate Professor

                             Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pukyong National University 

  2012 - 2014        Assistant Professor

                             Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pukyong National University 

  2008 - 2012        Sr. Research Scientist

                             Laser Therapeutic Research Lab, ENDO Healthcare, CA, USA

  2007 - 2008        Research Scientist

                             Corporate Research, American Medical Systems, Inc., MN, USA

  2003 - 2006        Research Assistant

                             Biomedical Engineering Laser Lab (BELL), University of Texas at Austin

 

Professional Activities

  2024 - present      Editorial Board, Lasers in Surgery and Medicine  

  2022 - present      SPIE Fellow, International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)

  2020 - 2021          Publish Chair, SPIE Advanced Biophotonics Conference

  2019                    Conference Program Committee, European Conferences on Biomedical Optics

  2018 - 2021          Lifetime/Senior Member, International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)

  2016 - present      Consulting Scientist, Uro&PH, Boston Scientific Corp., San Jose, CA, USA

  2014 - 2015          Conference Chair, International Biomedical Engineering Conference

  2014 - 2015          International conference committee, Korean Society of Multimedia

  2013 - present      Program committee, Korean Society of Medical & Biological Engineering

  2011 - present      Conference Chair, Advanced Photonics in Urology, SPIE BiOS

  2010 - 2011          Program committee, Photonics in Urology, SPIE BiOS

  2007 - present      Member, IEEE Lasers and Electro - Optics

  2007 - present      Member, Optical Society of America (OSA)

  2004 - 2017          Member, International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)