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GIST FOEL

Professor

Principal Investigator

Dr. Young Min Song

Professor

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)

ACADEMIC SERVICES 

  • Associate Editor for IEEE Photonics Journal (IEEE)

  • Editorial board member for Journal of Optical Microsystems (SPIE)

  • Editorial Advisory Board for Soft Science (OAE)

  • Editorial board member for Electronics (MDPI)

  • Editorial board member for Micromachines (MDPI)

  • Editorial board member for International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing (Springer)

  • Guest Editor for Optical Materials Express (OSA)

  • Senior Member of the Optical Society of America (OSA)

  • Member of the IEEE Photonics Society

  • Member of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)

  • Member of the Materials Research Society (MRS)

  • Reviewer for

Science (AAAS), Sci. Adv. (AAAS)

Nat. Electron. (NPG), Nat. Comm. (NPG), Light Sci. & App. (NPG), Sci. Rep. (NPG)

Opt. Lett. (OSA), Opt. Exp. (OSA), Appl. Opt. (OSA)

Adv. Mater. (Wiley), Adv. Funct. Mater. (Wiley), Adv. Opt. Mater. (Wiley), Adv. Mater. Technol. (Wiley)

Nano Lett. (ACS), ACS Photonics (ACS), ACS Appl. Mat. & Inter. (ACS)

Opt. and Quant. Electron. (Springer), Appl. Phys. A (Springer), Appl. Phys. B (Springer)

Appl. Phys. Express (AIP)

Electron. Lett. (IET)

Photon. Technol. Lett. (IEEE)

Nano Energy (Elsevier), Sol. Energy Mat. & Sol. Cells (Elsevier), Thin Sol. Films (Elsevier)

Materials (MDPI), Sensors (MDPI), Micromachines (MDPI)

Opt. Eng. (SPIE)

HONORS AND AWARDS 

  • Researcher on the Month, Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), Korea (2023)

  • Outstanding Teaching Award, GIST (2022)

  • Outstanding Research Award, GIST (2022)

  • Research Award, ASML Tech Talk 2022 (2022)

  • Member of Y-KAST (2021)

  • Merit Award, Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS), Korea (2020)

  • Achievement Award, GIST (2020)

  • OSK Rising Star 30, Optical Society of Korea (2020)

  • 2019 Top 10 Nano Technology in Korea, MSIT, Korea (2019)

  • Best poster award, ISGMA 2017 (2017)

  • 2013 Top 10 leading Science in Korea, ‘insect’s eye camera’

  • Top 10 stories of 2013 in Nature, digital fly’s eye cameras

  • Golden Prize, the 17th Samsung HumanTech Thesis Award, Samsung Electronics, Korea (2011)

  • Bronze Prize, the 17th Samsung HumanTech Thesis Award, Samsung Electronics, Korea (2011)

  • Minister’s Award for outstanding graduate research by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST), Korea (2011)

  • DASAN Scholarship from the GIST on DASAN project (2010)

  • National Graduate Science & Technology Scholarship by Korea Student Aid Foundation (KOSAF) (2009-2010)

  • Highest Honors Student in Yonsei University (2002, 2003)

WORK EXPERIENCES

(2021 – present), EECS, GIST, Korea

  • Professor

(2020 – present), AI graduate school, GIST, Korea

  • Adjunct Professor

(2021 - present), MSE, Korea University, Korea

  • Adjunct Professor

(2020 – present), Anti-Viral Research Center, GIST, Korea

  • Affiliated Professor

(2019 – present), FOEL Inc., Korea (https://www.foel.cool)

  • Chief Executive Officer

(2018), The VELA Inc., Korea

  • Co-founder

(2018 – 2020), EECS, GIST, Korea 

  • Associate Professor

(2016 – 2018), EECS, GIST, Korea 

  • Assistant Professor

(2013 – 2016), EE, Pusan National University, Korea

  • Assistant Professor

(2011 – 2013), MSE, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA

Advisor: Prof. John A. Rogers

  • Postdoctoral research associate

(2011 – 2011), Ultrafast Fiber-Optic Networks Research Center, GIST, Korea

Advisor: Prof. Yong Tak Lee

  • Postdoctoral research associate

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. Degree

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology(GIST), Korea

School of Information and Mechatronics, Sept. 2006~ Feb. 2011
Advisor: Prof. Yong Tak Lee

  • M.S. Degree

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology(GIST), Korea

Department of Information and Communications, Mar. 2004~ Feb. 2006
Advisor: Prof. Yong Tak Lee

  • B.S. Degree

Yonsei University, Korea   |   Department of Biomedical Engineering, Mar 1999~ Feb. 2004

Principal Investigator

Professor

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)

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