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Jungwon Kim   (±èÁ¤¿ø)
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

- E-mail: jungwon[dot]kim[at]kaist[dot]ac[dot]kr
- Tel: +82-42-350-3236
- Google Scholar Profile
- Optica Fellow Profile
- Interview with the National Research Foundation (in Korean)


Education
- MIT (Cambridge, MA, USA): PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2007
- MIT (Cambridge, MA, USA): SM in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2004
- SNU (Seoul, Korea): BS in Electrical Engineering (Summa Cum Laude), 1999

Employment
- KAIST ME (Daejeon, Korea): Professor, 2021-Present
                                                 Associate Professor, 2012-2020
                                                 Assistant Professor, 2009-2012
- MPQ LAP (Garching, Germany): Visiting Scientist, 2013
- MIT RLE (Cambridge, MA, USA): Postdoctoral Associate, 2007-2009
- MIT EECS (Cambridge, MA, USA): Graduate Research Assistant, 2002-2007
- FiberPro Inc (Daejeon, Korea): Development Engineer, 1999-2002

Professional Activities
Societies
- Fellow, Optica (formerly, Optical Society of America (OSA)), 2023-
- Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), 2012-
- Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Photonics Society, 2024
- Senior Director of Academic Affairs, Optical Society of Korea (OSK), 2023-2024
- Director of Academic Affairs, Optical Society of Korea (OSK), 2021-2022
- Secretary of General Affairs, Optical Society of Korea (OSK), 2015
- Member of Board of Directors, Korea Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers (KSMTE), 2012-Present
Journals
- Topical Editor, Optics Letters, 2022 - Present
- Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports, 2016 - Present
- Guest Editor, IEEE/Optica Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2023 - Present
- Senior Deputy Editor, Current Optics and Photonics, 2019 - 2022
- Guest Editor, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 2016
- Reviewer for Nature, Science, Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Communications Physics, Optica, Optics Letters, Optics Express, Journal of Optical Society of America B, Applied Optics, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, IEEE Photonics Journal, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Scientific Reports, ACS Photonics, Applied Physics Letters, Applied Physics B, Optics Communication, Review of Scientific Instruments, Chinese Optics Letters, and SPIE Optical Engineering
- Recognized as one of the 200 Most Active Reviewers in 2011 from the Optical Society of America (OSA), 2012
International Conferences
- International Committee Chair of CLEO-PR 2024
- TPC Co-Chair of IEEE International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics (IEEE-MWP) 2023
- Program Chair of Optics and Photonics Congress (OPC) and OSK-Optica-OSJ Joint Symposia 2023
- Co-Chair of Applied Optics of OSJ-Optica-OSK Joint Symposia on Optics 2022
- Co-Chair of Microwave Photonics and Optical Signal Processing Track of ACP 2022
- Co-Chair of Solid-State, Fiber and Other Laser Sources Subcommittee of CLEO-PR 2022
- Co-Chair of Applied Optics of OSK-OSA-OSJ Joint Symposia on Optics 2021
- Co-Chair of Microwave Photonics Symposium of CLEO-PR, OECC & PGC 2017
- Co-Chair of Laser Metrology Subcommittee of APLS 2016 and 2018
- Co-Chair of Optical Fiber Sensors and Microwave Photonics Subcommittee of OECC 2015
- Program committee member of Ultrafast Optics Conference 2023
- Program committee member (Optical Metrology) of CLEO 2021, 2022 and 2023
- Program committee member (Real-time Photonic Mesurements, Data Management) of Photonics Asia 2020
- Program committee member (Microwave Photonics) of CIOP 2019
- Program committee member (Solid-State, Fiber and Other Laser Sources) of CLEO-PR 2018 and 2020
- Program committee member (Photonic-based RF signal generation) of IEEE-MWP 2018 and 2019
- Program committee member (Optical Metrology) of CLEO 2016, 2017 and 2018
- Program committee member (Commission D: Electronics and Photonics) of URSI AP-RASC 2016
- Program committee member (Solid-State, Fiber and Other Laser Sources) of CLEO-PR 2015
- Program committee member (Ultrafast Optics, Optoelectronics and Applications) of CLEO 2011, 2012 and 2013
- Program committee member (Optical Active Devices and Modules) of OECC 2012
- Program committee member (Quantum Information and Precision Metrology) of APLS 2012
- Program committee member (Ultrafast Optics and Photonics) of CLEO-PR/IQEC 2011
- Special session organizer for ICEAA 2010 Conference
Consulting
- Technical consulting for Agency for Defense Development (ADD), 2022
- Technical consulting for Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, 2021
- Technical consulting for Menlo Systems USA in the FERMI@Elettra Timing Project, 2009

Honors and Awards
- Laser Science Award (·¹ÀÌÀú °úÇлó) from Optical Society of Korea (OSK), 2024
- 2024 IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer, 2023
- Fellow of Optica (Optical Society of America), 2022
- Scientist of the Month (ÀÌ´ÞÀÇ °úÇбâ¼úÀλó) from Ministry of Science and ICT of Republic of Korea, 2020
- Haelim Photonics Award (Çظ² ±¤ÀÚ°øÇлó) from Optical Society of Korea (OSK), 2018
- Outstanding Teaching Award (Fall 2017 semester) from KAIST ME, 2018
- Samsung Research Funding and Incubation Center for Future Technology (SRFC) Investigator, 2017-2024
- 2015 Top 10 Research Accomplishments of KAIST, 2016
- KAIST Technology Innovation Award (Outstanding Prize), 2015
- DAAD Scholarship for visiting research at Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ), 2013
- Ewon Endowed Chair Assistant/Associate Professorship, 2012-2015
- Outstanding Teaching Award (Spring 2010 semester) from KAIST ME, 2010
- IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) Graduate Fellowship Award, 2006
- Morris Joseph Levin Award from MIT EECS for the outstanding master thesis presentation, 2004
- Samsung Scholarship Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, 2002-2007
- President's Award for the top-ranked graduate in Engineering, Seoul National University, 1999
- Silver Medalist of the 26th International Chemistry Olympiad (Oslo, Norway), 1994

Selected Publications (full list can be found in the publication section)
- M. Hyun, H. Chung, W. Na, and J. Kim, "Femtosecond-precision electronic clock distribution in CMOS chips by injecting frequency comb-extracted photocurrent pulses," Nature Communications 14, 2345 (2023)
- Y. Na, H. Kwak, C. Ahn, S. Lee, W. Lee, C.-S. Kang, J. Lee, J. Suh, H. Yoo, and J. Kim, "Massively parallel electro-optic sampling of space-encoded optical pulses for ultrafast multi-dimensional imaging," Light: Science & Applications 12, 44 (2023)
- D. Kwon, D. Jeong, I. Jeon, H. Lee, and J. Kim, "Ultrastable microwave and soliton-pulse generation from fibre-photonic-stabilized microcombs," Nature Communications 13, 381 (2022)
- J. Shin, H. Kim, S. Park, H. Bark, I. Baek, K. Oang, K. Jang, K. Lee, F. Rotermund, Y. Jeong, and J. Kim, "Sub-10-fs timing for ultrafast electron diffraction with THz-driven streak camera," Laser & Photonics Reviews 15, 2000326 (2021)
- H. Kwak, S. Ryu, S. Cho, J. Kim, Y. Yang, and J. Kim, "Non-destructive thickness characterisation of 3D multilayer semiconductor devices using optical spectral measurements and machine learning," Light: Advanced Manufacturing 2, 9-19 (2021)
- D. Jeong, D. Kwon, I. Jeon, I. Do, J. Kim, and H. Lee, "Ultralow jitter silica microcomb," Optica 7, 1108-1111 (2020)
- M. Hyun, C. Ahn, Y. Na, H. Chung, and J. Kim, "Attosecond electronic timing with rising edges of photocurrent pulses," Nature Communications 11, 3667 (2020)
- Y. Na, C. Jeon, C. Ahn, M. Hyun, D. Kwon, J. Shin, and J. Kim, "Ultrafast, sub-nanometre-precision and multifunctional time-of-flight detection," Nature Photonics 14, 356-360 (2020)
- D. Kwon, I. Jeon, W. Lee, M. Heo, and J. Kim, "Generation of multiple ultra-stable optical frequency combs from an all-fiber photonic platform," Science Advances 6, eaax4457 (2020)
- H. Kim, N. Vinokurov, I. Baek, K. Oang, M. Kim, Y. Kim, K. Jang, K. Lee, S. Park, S. Park, J. Shin, J. Kim, F. Rotermund, S. Cho, T. Feurer, and Y. Jeong, "Towards jitter-free ultrafast electron diffraction technology," Nature Photonics 14, 245-249 (2020)
- J. Kim and Y. Song, "Ultralow-noise mode-locked fiber lasers and frequency combs: principles, status and applications," Advances in Optics and Photonics 8, 465-540 (2016)
- K. Jung and J. Kim, "All-fibre photonic signal generator for attosecond timing and ultralow-noise microwave," Scientific Reports 5, 16250 (2015)
- K. Jung and J. Kim, "Subfemtosecond synchronization of microwave oscillators with mode-locked Er-fiber lasers," Optics Letters 37, 2958-2960 (2012)
- T. Kim, Y. Song, K. Jung, C. Kim, H. Kim, C. Nam, and J. Kim, "Sub-100-as timing jitter optical pulse trains from mode-locked Er-fiber lasers," Optics Letters 36, 4443-4445 (2011)
- Y. Song, C. Kim, K. Jung, H. Kim, and J. Kim, "Timing jitter optimization of mode-locked Yb-fiber lasers toward the attosecond regime," Optics Express 19, 14518-14525 (2011)
- J. Kim and F. X. Kärtner, "Attosecond-precision ultrafast photonics," Laser & Photonics Reviews 4, 432-456 (2010)
- J. Kim, J. A. Cox, J. Chen, and F. X. Kärtner, "Drift-free femtosecond timing synchronization of remote optical and microwave sources," Nature Photonics 2, 733-736 (2008)