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Sangyoon Han

Assistant Professor

 

Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Inst. of Sci. & Tech.)

Office: E5 308

Phone: +82-53-785-6227

Email: s.han@dgist.ac.kr

   Education

 University of California, Berkeley, Aug 2010 - May 2016​

  • M.S./Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  • Advisor: Ming C. Wu

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 Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Mar 2006 - Aug 2010​

  • B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude

  • GPA: 4.19/4.30 (major), 4.08/4.30 (overall)

   Honors & Awards

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Young Scientist Award at PIERS, 2024

  • From Photonics and Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS) 2024

  • Sponsored by Electromagnetics Academy, USA.

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IEEE IUS Best Paper Award, Finalist

  • At IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2023

  • Top 15 best papers out of 203 papers

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Top Scored Paper at Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC), 2021

  • paper F4A.3, as a corresponding author

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 Collegiate Inventors Competition, 2015​

  • Held at United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) (미국 특허청)

  • Graduate bronze medal

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 Corning Outstanding Student Paper Competition, 2014​

  • Held at Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC)

  • Finalist (top 6 papers out of 341 papers)

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 Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies (KFAS) Scholarship (한국고등교육재단 해외유학 장학생), 2010 - 2015​

  • Full tuition and stipend for five years for graduate study

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 Top Scored Paper at Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC), 2015​

  • paper M2B.4

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 Top Scored Paper, Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC), 2014​

  • paper M2K.2

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 Global Leader Scholarship, 2008​

  • By College of Engineering in Seoul National University

  • Financial support for student exchange program at Tsinghua University (China)

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 University Students Contest of Engineering Mathematics, 2007​

  • By Korean Mathematical Society

  • Excellence award

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 Early Career Development Scholarship, 2006​

  • Selected as one of top 16 (GPA rank based) among the entire freshmen students of College of Engineering in Seoul National University

   Media Appearances

​굿모닝나노, Feb 13th, "움직이는 광도파로로 광집적회로의 문제를 풀다"

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PHYSORG, Feb 5th, "Key innovation in photonic components could transform supercomputing technology"

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조선비즈, Jan 9th, "DGIST·KAIST 연구진, 발열 문제 해결한 광-GPU 개발"​

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전자신문, Nov 18th 2022, "DGIST, 'IEEE IUS 2023'에서 최우수 학생 논문상 수상"

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과학동아, Mar 2022, "[융복합@파트너] 빛으로 구현하는 극초고속 계산기계"

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전자신문, Nov 18th 2021, "DGIST, 삼성미래기술육성사업 선정...광대역 센서어레이 개발 추진"

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뉴시스, Nov 16th 2021, "우주에서도 광통신 가능한 광스위치 개발"

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전자신문, June 22th 2021, "한·미연구팀, 데이터처리속도 10만배 빠른 광라우터 양산기술 개발"

 

 SPIE New, Apr 13th 2021, “Photonic MEMS switches going commercial”

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 메디컬투데이, Dec 23rd 2020, “KAIST, 초소형·저전력·저잡음 브릴루앙 레이저 구현”

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 서울신문, Oct 12th 2020, “DGIST 2020년도 하반기 ‘삼성미래기술육성사업’ 2개 과제 선정”

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 The Daily Californian, Nov 19th, 2015, “UC Berkeley team wins $10,000 for cloud-storage innovation.”

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 Huffington Post, Oct 29th, 2015, “2015 Collegiate Inventors Competition to be Held November 16.”

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 Technically Media, Nov 18th, 2015, “Meet the winners of the 2015 Collegiate Inventors Competition.”

   Academic Experiences

 KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Jul 2016 - Feb 2020​

  • Postdoctoral researcher in Physics Department

  • As a mandatory military service required for all Korean male

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 BSAC (Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center), Jan 2011 – May 2016​

  • Graduate student researcher

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 Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science (E3S) Jan 2015 – May 2015​

  • Graduate student researcher

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 University of California, Berkeley Aug 2011 – May 2016​

  • Graduate student researcher in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department

   Teaching Experiences

Introduction to integrated optics

  • DGIST: fall 2020, 2021, 2022

  • Developed the new course

 

Advanced electromagnetism

  • DGIST: spring 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

  • Developed the new course

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Introduction to electronic devices

  • DGIST: fall 2022

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Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley, EE 40 (Introduction to Microelectronic Circuits), Summer 2014

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 Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley, EE 40 (Introduction to Microelectronic Circuits), Fall 2014

   Invited Talks

IEEE SUM Conference (expected)

  • Event name: IEEE Summer Topicals Meeting Series (SUM), 2024

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PIERS Conference

  • Event name: Photonics and Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), 2024

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Invited talk at 2024 Spring DGIST EECS Colloquium, 2024

  • Title: Programmable Photonic Circuits with MEMS: Photonic FPGA and More

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Invited talk at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), A&T Topical Review, 2022

  • Title: Ultra-low Power and Scalable Programmable Silicon Photonic MEMS

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Invited talk at European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), 2022

  • Title: Silicon photonic MEMS for programmable photonics

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Invited talk at International Conference on Optical MEMS & Nanophotonics (IEEE OMN), 2022

  • Title: Ultra-Low Power Programmable Silicon Photonic MEMS

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Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) Colloquium, Gwangju, Korea, “Photonics for Intelligence”, April 2021

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 Center for Quantum Information at Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Gyeonggi-do, Korea, “Large-Scale  Programmable Photonics with Mechano-Optics,” Feb 2021

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 Agency for Defense Development (ADD) of Korea, Daejeon, “Mechano-optic devices for large-scale photonic integration”,  Jan 2021

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 Photonics Conference (PC) of Optical Society of Korea (OSK), Online, “Ising Machine on Silicon Photonics”, Nov 2021

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 Center for Quantum Information at Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)​

  • Title: Large-scale silicon photonic switches for next-generation data centers

  • Gyeonggi-do, Korea, Nov 2019

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 Seoul National University (SNU)​

  • Title: High-Radix Silicon Photonic Switches for Next-Generation Data Centers

  • Seoul, Korea, Oct 2019

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 Optics and Photonics Congress of Optical Society of Korea (OSK)​

  • Title: On-chip Brillouin Lasers Based on High-Q Chalcogenide Devices

  • Busan, Korea, Jul 2019

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 Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST)​

  • Title: Easing datacenters with large-scale silicon photonic MEMS switches

  • Daegu, Korea, Jul 2019

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 University of California, Berkeley​

  • Title: High-Q chalcogenide device platform without direct etching process for non-linear and mid-IR applications

  • At Solid State Technology and Devices Seminar

  • California, USA, May 2019

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 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)​

  • Title: Large-scale Silicon Photonic MEMS Switches

  • Daejeon, Korea, Sep 2016

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 Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)​

  • Title: High performance optical devices on silicon photonics platform

  • Seoul, Korea, Jan 2015

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 Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)​

  • Title: High performance optical devices on silicon photonics platform

  • Daejeon, Korea, Jan 2015

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   Language Skills

 Chinese (Mandarin): fluent in speaking, intermediate in reading and writing​

  • Three years in overseas Chinese elementary school at Jeonju, Korea (全州华侨小学校).

  • One year in elementary school at Harbin, China (哈尔滨经纬小学).

  • Half year in Tsinghua University at Beijing, China.

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 English: fluent in speaking, reading, and writing

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 Korean: native language

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