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📢 Recent News

[Jun. 2026] 🏆 Thrilled to share that our team received the Grand Prize and Participation Prize in the KIEEME Annual Summer Conference 2026 by KIEEME!

[May. 2026] 🌎 Presentation: Our abstract is accepted for poster presentation in The 6th International Workshop on Gallium Oxide and Related Materials (IWGO-6)! I will be presenting my work on "Multi-kilovolt Vertical NiO/Ga₂O₃ p–n Heterojunction Diodes with Ring-Assisted Junction Termination Extension."

[Apr. 2026] 📃4th Journal Publication (MA): "Interface-Engineered Ultrawide-Bandgap TiN/β-Ga2O3 Schottky Diodes for Radiation-Hard X-ray Detection and Imaging" is accepted and published in ACS Appl. Electron. Mater.!

[Dec. 2025] 📃3rd Journal Publication (MA): "Exploiting Mg-Interdiffusion-Driven Work-Function Reduction in Ti/Mg/Ti Multilayers to Achieve Low-Resistivity Ohmic Contacts to (001) β-Ga2O3" is accepted and published in ACS Nano!

🎓 Education

• M.S. in Semiconductor Systems Engineering, Sejong University (SJU), Seoul, Republic of Korea (Mar. 2025 - Feb. 2027)
  • Total GPA: 4.0/4.0

• Thesis Title: Multi-Kilovolt Vertical NiO/Ga₂O₃ Heterojunction Diodes with Ring-Assisted Junction Termination Extension

(Won Outstanding Research Award in Graduation Ceremony (TBA))

• B.S. in Electronic Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology (KIT), Gumi, Republic of Korea (Mar. 2019 - Feb. 2025)

• GPA: 3.774/4.0 (Upper 4.9%, Equivalent to Magna Cum Laude)

• Thesis Title: A Design of 1.2-kV SiC MOSFETs with Split-Gate for the Improvement of Breakdown Characteristics

(Won Silver Prize in Semiconductor System Major Industry-Academia Project and Graduation Presentation) 

💼 Research & Work Experience

• Graduate Research Assistant, Intelligent Semiconductor Laboratory, SJU. (Mar. 2025 - Feb. 2027)

• Advisor: Prof. You Seung Rim (Co-Advisor: Prof. Madani Labed)

• Conducted the TCAD-driven design and analysis of edge termination structures for multi-kV vertical Ga₂O₃ power devices.

• Performed numerical TCAD simulation studies for low-loss vertical Ga₂O₃ power transistors.

• Internship, PowerCubeSemi, Inc. (Mar. 2025–Jun. 2025 / Sep. 2025–Dec. 2025 / Mar. 2026–Jun. 2026)

• Developed medium-voltage Ga₂O₃ power devices for UAM-eVTOL applications

• Undergraduate Research Assistant, Power Semiconductor Laboratory, KIT. (Jan. 2023 - Aug. 2024)

• Advisor: Prof. Ogyun Seok

• Conducted the TCAD-driven design, electrical characterization, reliability evaluation of 650-V and 1.2-kV 4H-SiC power MOSFETs

• Operator (Contract), Optics Solution, LG Innotek. (Nov. 2021 - Feb. 2022)

• Performed facility operation and maintenance for camera-module cleanroom fabrication. (die attach and Au wire bonding of CMOS image sensor chips)

• Military Service, Republic of Korea Army (Feb. 2020 - Nov. 2021)
  
  

🧑‍🏫 Teaching Experience

• KIT Freshman Mentoring Program, KIT. (Mar. 2024 - Dec. 2024)

• Mentored approximately 25 undergraduate students per semester, providing academic guidance, campus-life support, and peer-based communication to help new students adapt to the department.

💪 Professional Skills

• Language
  English (Intermediate) and Korean (Native)

• Tool
  Synopsys Sentaurus TCAD (Advanced), Silvaco ATLAS (Advanced), KLayout (Intermediate), LTSpice (Novice), and OriginLab (Advanced)

• Characterization
  (T-dependent) I–V/C–V Characterization, Double Pulse Test, and Thin Film Analysis

• Fabrication
  Cleaning Process, Photolithography, E-Beam/Thermal Evaporator, (DC/RF-) Magnetron Sputtering, and Rapid Thermal Annealing

• Reliability
  Radiation Effects, Short-Circuit, UIS Ruggedness, HTRB, HTGB, and TDDB

🏅 Honors and Awards

• Grand Prize & Participation Prize, KIEEME Annual Summer Conference 2026 by KIEEME (2026)

• Silver Prize, Semiconductor System Major Industry-Academia Project and Graduation Presentation by KIT (2024)

• Presidential Science Scholarship, by Korea Student Aid Foundation (2023) [Click Here🔗]

• Innovation Idea Prize (twice), Startup Club (Prototype Production) Competition by KIT (2022)

• Finalist (Power Semiconductor Devices-based SiC Substrate by SK Siltron Inc.), Campus Patent Universiade Competition by Korea Invention Promotion Association (2022)