BIOGRAPHY
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Head of Semiconductor R&D center (CTO) at Wonik IPS (Jan. 2024-present)
- Organizing all R&D operations and strategies
- Development of CVD/ALD Dielectric, Metal and Diffusion batch/single systems including Epi and Annealing
Head of Engineering at Wonik IPS (Oct 2017-Dec 2023)
- Leading design teams to develop multi-stage CVD, Metal and ALD, Epi equipment and batch ALD systems.
- Increasing market share in 3D Nand mold, DRAM Capacitor and Logic patterning
Director, Applied Materials. (Feb 2014- Sep 2017)
- Dry clean market penetration for Samsung electronics
- World largest revenue and profit: CEO Award
CTO, Sunnix. (Jan 2013- Dec 2013)
- Developed and penetrate equipment health monitoring system to Samsung Electronics and display
Team leader, Fab equipment innovation team, Samsung Electronics (Oct 2007- Dec 2012)
- Lead expert team for dry etch equipment innovation
- 3-year consecutive annual Grand-prize from Samsung CEO for equipment innovation (2009 – 2011)
Mechanical Engineer, dry etch, Lam Research (Apr. 2004 – Oct 2007)
- Design dry etch equipment and material development
- 2 times innovation award by CEO
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Feb 2002
MIT, Cambridge, MA
[Thesis] “Causality and Sensitivity analysis in distributed design simulation”
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Jun 1998
MIT, Cambridge, MA
[Thesis] “NC Verification using Octree”
B.S. in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Aug 1994
Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea. First place graduation in Engineering School