CURRENT POSITION(S)

2023.10.1- 2026.9.30  Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering, Department of Engineering Eng, University of Cambridge

2 016.01 –2023.09.30  The 1944 Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering,Fellow of Churchill college, Department of Engineering,  University of Cambridge, UK

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2012.03 – 2015.12 Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering, Fellow of St. Hugh’s College, Dept of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK

1999 – 2012  Samsung Group Fellow, Senior VP, VP, Samsung Corp R&D     

2008 – 2012  Director of Frontier Research Centre, Senior VP, Samsung Electronics, Corp R&D, Samsung Advanced Inst of Technology              

2006–2008   Director of Display Device Lab& Materials Centre., Senior VP, Samsung Electronics Corp R&D,Samsung Advanced Inst of Technology

2004 – 2005  Director of Materials Laboratory., VP, Samsung Electronics Corp R&D

2000 – 2003  Director (Vice President.), FED Project team, SAIT and Samsung SDI  

1997 – 2004  Project Leader, National Creative Research Initiative Program by Korea Government    

1994 – 2001  Director of Display Lab. (Vice President.), SAIT, Samsung Group Corp R&D Centre

1992 – 1994  Senior Engineer, FED (eMagin) Corp, East fishkill (IBM Complex), USA             

1988 – 1992  Visiting Research Engineer, US Army Research Lab., NJ, USA               

1982 – 1984  Engineer, OA division, LG Electronics (old Gold Star), Korea

Special Scientific Achievement – World First Inventions 

World First Carbon Nano Tube Field Emitter and 40” HDTVs

(Highlighted in Science & Nature, Fortune, MIT Technology Review,1999 & 2001)

CNT nano resonator (Highlighted in Nature NT, 2007, multi publications)

Nano memory switch (Nature NT ’08)

Nano networked transistors (Science ‘08, Nature Comm. 2011)

• Graphene photo detector (Nature Comm, 2017)                            
• Graphene transparent and flexible electrode (Nature, 2009)
• Printed 2D material CMOS and charge transport (Nature Elect, 2021)
• Quantum dot LED with a-TFT (Nature Photonics Cover Article 2009, monocolour)
• The full colour QD Display/ light by new-TFTs (Nature Phot 2011, Nature Comm, 2013)
• Smart textile displays and lighting with nano sensor, energy network (Nature Comm.’ 22)
• Nano/micro LED on glass (Nature Photo. Cover Article, ‘11, highlighted in Nature, ‘11)
• Fragrance generating system(Angewant Chemie. CNBC & 30 broadcasting, ‘11)
• 3D holographic display (‘01): Sunday Times “Special News”, Applied Optics (‘01)
• 3D nano active hologram (Phys Chem. C, Cover Articles ‘09 Advan Materials,’10),
• Smart textile displays with sensors, energy network (Nature Comm.’ 22)
• Machine learning embedded Smart lighting (Nature Comm, ’22, /Cambridge News)
• Textile Integrated electro-optics networks (Science Advances, 2023)

World first invention and commercialization

• Samsung QLED display initiated in 2000 and was first in the market in 2015 under my leadership
• Samsung Foldable display initiated by me in 2004 and was first commercialized in 2019
• Samsung OLED and LiB had similar years for commercialization in average 15 years

ACTIVITY OF SCIENTIFIC MEETING or Organization

2006 - 2011 Chair, Exhibition & Technology, IEEE NT/Nano Korea

2008 - 2011  Chair, Samsung Group Tech Conference

2008 - 2012  International Advisory Board, RUSNANOPRIZE by RusNano

2000 - 2018  International steering committee member, IEEE/IVNC

2010 - 2012    Technical Committee, IEEE/MTT-25, RF Nanotechnology

2003       Chair, IEEE Field Emission Workshop

2015         Committee, “Science and technology roadmap” the EC Graphene Flagship

2014 - 2018    Committee, UK National Quantum Technology Hub(NQIT), Oxford

2015 -        Committee, UK National Thin-Film Cluster for Advanced Functional Materials, Oxford

2013 -        Science Board, LOPEC: Large area organic, printable electronics conference & Exhibition

2015 -        Advisory Board, NanoFIS (Functional Integrated Nano System, Int Conference

2013- 2014    Committee, EC-Korea EUREKA Program Meeting