Education
02/2022 – 02/2024 CAMPEP Medical Physics Certificate Program
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, US
03/2016 – 02/2020 PhD in Nuclear and Quantum Engineering
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea
Supervisor: Seungryong Cho (scho@kaist.ac.kr)
09/2013 – 08/2015 MS in Nuclear and Quantum Engineering
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea
Supervisor: Seungryong Cho (scho@kaist.ac.kr)
02/2009 – 08/2013 BS in Nuclear and Quantum Engineering
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea
Work experience
07/2024 – Assistant Professor
Department of Diagnostic Radiology
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
01/2024 – 06/2024 Postdoctoral Research Associate
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
Supervisor: Ozgur Ates (ozgur.ates@stjude.org)
Adaptive proton therapy for pediatric patient
07/2020 – 12/2023 Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Supervisor: Harald Paganetti (HPAGANETTI@mgh.harvard.edu)
Fast GPU-based Monte Carlo code for proton dose calculation (moqui)– proton dose calculation less within a minute
A generalized machine learning model for CBCT scatter correction algorithm
Imaging extensions for TOPAS (TOPAS-imaging) – CBCT, PET, SPECT, and prompt gamma
Artificial intelligence model to predict brain necrosis after proton therapy
03/2017 – 12/2018 Research Assistant
Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea
Supervisor: Byungchul Cho (cho.byungchul@gmail.com)
Automating intensity-modulated radiotherapy planning methods with AI
Patients’ respiratory motion prediction using AI and real-time motion compensation
09/2015 – 02/2016 Research Assistant
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea
Supervisor: Seungryong Cho (scho@kaist.ac.kr)
Dental CBCT image registration
Beam-blocker-based scatter correction
Teaching experience
09/2014 – 12/2014 Teaching Assistant at the Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, KAIST
NQE272 Introduction to Medical Physics
03/2014 – 06/2014 Teaching Assistant at the Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, KAIST
NQE201 Fundamentals of Nuclear & Quantum Engineering
Professional activities
2020 – Junior member (American Association of Physicists in Medicine)
2021 – Postdoctoral Fellow member (American Society for Radiation Oncology)
2023 – Member-in-training (Radiology Society of North America)
07/2023 – 06/2025 Trainee Editorial Board member of Radiology: Artificial Intelligence
03/2023 – Guest member of Working Group for Non-clinical Professionals (American Association of Physicists in Medicine)
Journal Reviewer
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Physics in Medicine and Biology
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Medical Physics
Cancers
Applied Science
AAPM Annual Meeting & Exhibition 2023
Radiology: Artificial Intelligence
Awards & Honors
Editor's Recognition Award for Reviewing with Distinction, Radiology: Artificial Intelligence, 2024
Outstanding presentation award, IEEE NPSS Seoul Chapter, 2018
Featured article, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, March 2017 (Investigation on Beam-Blocker-Based Scatter Correction Method for Improving CT Number Accuracy)