Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 2019 

  • Thesis title: "Novel micro/nanofluidic system for separation and monitoring of cells and proteins in perfusion" (Supervisor: Prof. Jongyoon Han)

  • Micro/Nanofluidic BioMEMS Group

• M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University in 2013. 

  • Thesis title: "Novel encoding method using a photoluminescent material for microparticles and its applications" (Supervisor: Prof. Sunghoon Kwon)

  • Biophotonics and Nano Engineering Lab

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2011. 

Work Experience

• Scientist in the Advanced Bioprocessing Team in Corporate Research at Sartorius (August 2021 - present) 

• Postdoctoral Associate in the Micro/Nanofluidic BioMEMS Group at MIT (February 2019 - July 2021)

• Scientific and Technical Advisor for Whirlcell (May 2015 - July 2021)

• Graduate Research Assistant in the Micro/Nanofluidic BioMEMS Group and Hamel Bioprocessing Laboratory (February 2014 - January 2019)

• Graduate Research Assistant in the Biophotonics and Nano Engineering Laboratory (BINEL) (March 2011 - February 2013)

Past Major Research Projects at MIT

• Development of a microfluidic cell retention device for perfusion of mammalian cell suspension

• Continuous online monitoring of critical quality attributes (e.g., antibody purity or binding affinity) using a nanofluidic protein separation device

Research Keywords

• Bioprocessing

• Micro/nanofluidics

• BioMEMS

• Miniaturization

• Sensors

• Cell separation

• Biomolecule separation