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
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M.S./Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Advisor: Ming C. Wu
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Mar 2006 - Aug 2010
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B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude
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GPA: 4.19/4.30 (major), 4.08/4.30 (overall)
Honors & Awards
Young Scientist Award at PIERS, 2024
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From Photonics and Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS) 2024
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Sponsored by Electromagnetics Academy, USA.
IEEE IUS Best Paper Award, Finalist
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At IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2023
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Top 15 best papers out of 203 papers
Top Scored Paper at Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC), 2021
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paper F4A.3, as a corresponding author
Collegiate Inventors Competition, 2015
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Held at United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) (미국 특허청)
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Graduate bronze medal
Corning Outstanding Student Paper Competition, 2014
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Held at Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC)
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Finalist (top 6 papers out of 341 papers)
Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies (KFAS) Scholarship (한국고등교육재단 해외유학 장학생), 2010 - 2015
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Full tuition and stipend for five years for graduate study
Top Scored Paper at Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC), 2015
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paper M2B.4
Top Scored Paper, Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC), 2014
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paper M2K.2
Global Leader Scholarship, 2008
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By College of Engineering in Seoul National University
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Financial support for student exchange program at Tsinghua University (China)
University Students Contest of Engineering Mathematics, 2007
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By Korean Mathematical Society
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Excellence award
Early Career Development Scholarship, 2006
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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"
PHYSORG, Feb 5th, "Key innovation in photonic components could transform supercomputing technology"
조선비즈, Jan 9th, "DGIST·KAIST 연구진, 발열 문제 해결한 광-GPU 개발"
전자신문, Nov 18th 2022, "DGIST, 'IEEE IUS 2023'에서 최우수 학생 논문상 수상"
과학동아, Mar 2022, "[융복합@파트너] 빛으로 구현하는 극초고속 계산기계"
전자신문, Nov 18th 2021, "DGIST, 삼성미래기술육성사업 선정...광대역 센서어레이 개발 추진"
뉴시스, Nov 16th 2021, "우주에서도 광통신 가능한 광스위치 개발"
전자신문, June 22th 2021, "한·미연구팀, 데이터처리속도 10만배 빠른 광라우터 양산기술 개발"
SPIE New, Apr 13th 2021, “Photonic MEMS switches going commercial”
메디컬투데이, Dec 23rd 2020, “KAIST, 초소형·저전력·저잡음 브릴루앙 레이저 구현”
서울신문, Oct 12th 2020, “DGIST 2020년도 하반기 ‘삼성미래기술육성사업’ 2개 과제 선정”
The Daily Californian, Nov 19th, 2015, “UC Berkeley team wins $10,000 for cloud-storage innovation.”
Huffington Post, Oct 29th, 2015, “2015 Collegiate Inventors Competition to be Held November 16.”
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
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Postdoctoral researcher in Physics Department
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As a mandatory military service required for all Korean male
BSAC (Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center), Jan 2011 – May 2016
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Graduate student researcher
Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science (E3S) Jan 2015 – May 2015
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Graduate student researcher
University of California, Berkeley Aug 2011 – May 2016
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Graduate student researcher in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department
Teaching Experiences
Introduction to integrated optics
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DGIST: fall 2020, 2021, 2022
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Developed the new course
Advanced electromagnetism
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DGIST: spring 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
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Developed the new course
Introduction to electronic devices
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DGIST: fall 2022
Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley, EE 40 (Introduction to Microelectronic Circuits), Summer 2014
Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley, EE 40 (Introduction to Microelectronic Circuits), Fall 2014
Invited Talks
IEEE SUM Conference (expected)
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Event name: IEEE Summer Topicals Meeting Series (SUM), 2024
PIERS Conference
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Event name: Photonics and Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), 2024
Invited talk at 2024 Spring DGIST EECS Colloquium, 2024
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Title: Programmable Photonic Circuits with MEMS: Photonic FPGA and More
Invited talk at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), A&T Topical Review, 2022
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Title: Ultra-low Power and Scalable Programmable Silicon Photonic MEMS
Invited talk at European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), 2022
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Title: Silicon photonic MEMS for programmable photonics
Invited talk at International Conference on Optical MEMS & Nanophotonics (IEEE OMN), 2022
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Title: Ultra-Low Power Programmable Silicon Photonic MEMS
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) Colloquium, Gwangju, Korea, “Photonics for Intelligence”, April 2021
Center for Quantum Information at Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Gyeonggi-do, Korea, “Large-Scale Programmable Photonics with Mechano-Optics,” Feb 2021
Agency for Defense Development (ADD) of Korea, Daejeon, “Mechano-optic devices for large-scale photonic integration”, Jan 2021
Photonics Conference (PC) of Optical Society of Korea (OSK), Online, “Ising Machine on Silicon Photonics”, Nov 2021
Center for Quantum Information at Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)
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Title: Large-scale silicon photonic switches for next-generation data centers
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Gyeonggi-do, Korea, Nov 2019
Seoul National University (SNU)
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Title: High-Radix Silicon Photonic Switches for Next-Generation Data Centers
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Seoul, Korea, Oct 2019
Optics and Photonics Congress of Optical Society of Korea (OSK)
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Title: On-chip Brillouin Lasers Based on High-Q Chalcogenide Devices
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Busan, Korea, Jul 2019
Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST)
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Title: Easing datacenters with large-scale silicon photonic MEMS switches
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Daegu, Korea, Jul 2019
University of California, Berkeley
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Title: High-Q chalcogenide device platform without direct etching process for non-linear and mid-IR applications
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At Solid State Technology and Devices Seminar
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California, USA, May 2019
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
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Title: Large-scale Silicon Photonic MEMS Switches
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Daejeon, Korea, Sep 2016
Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)
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Title: High performance optical devices on silicon photonics platform
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Seoul, Korea, Jan 2015
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)
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Title: High performance optical devices on silicon photonics platform
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Daejeon, Korea, Jan 2015
Language Skills
Chinese (Mandarin): fluent in speaking, intermediate in reading and writing
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Three years in overseas Chinese elementary school at Jeonju, Korea (全州华侨小学校).
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One year in elementary school at Harbin, China (哈尔滨经纬小学).
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Half year in Tsinghua University at Beijing, China.
English: fluent in speaking, reading, and writing
Korean: native language