Short biography
Il-Sug Chung received all his academic degrees at GIST and KAIST, Korea and has developed most of his professional careers at DTU, Denmark for more than 11 years, which is one of leading technical universities in Europe. In 2018, he has moved to UNIST while maintaining his professorship and research team at DTU until 2019. His research team at DTU is one of recognized research groups on silicon-on-chip lasers and high-contrast meta-structures, holding track records. His vision at UNIST is to extend the researches on nano-structured optoelectronics on silicon and realize the silicon-on-chip platform where photonics and electronics are integrated, for applications in future computers, bio/medical diagnosis chips, and quantum photonics chips.
Education
- Ph.D. in Information and Communications (Optoelectronics), Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea in Feb. 2006.
- M.Sc. in Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea in Aug. 2000.
- B.Sc. in Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea in Feb. 1997.
Miscellaneous training
- Education in University teaching at Technical University of Denmark (4 modules) in 2011
- Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship course for big project leaders (4 modules) in 2015
Employment track
- Feb. 2018 – present: Assoc. Professor (tenure), School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
- Nov. 2011 – Mar. 2019: Assoc. Professor (tenure), Dept. of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
- Jan. 2009 – Oct. 2011: Assist. Professor, Dept. of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
- Dec. 2006 – Dec. 2008: Postdoc at Research Center COM, Denmark
- Mar. 2006 – Nov. 2006: Postdoc at GIST, Korea
- Sep. 2000 – Nov. 2000: Researcher at Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Korea
Research grants, principal investigator
- Innovation Fund Denmark (04.2015-03.2019; grant # 5106-00013B): 30M DKK (~5,308M KRW)
- Danish Research Council (01.2012-01.2016; grant # 0602-01885B): 5.76M DKK (~1,019M KRW)
- Danish Research Council (01.2009-12.2011; grant #274-08-0361): 2.15 M DKK (~381M KRW)
- PoC Fund (01.2010-12.2011): 0.75 M DKK (~133M KRW)
Research projects, participant
- EU FP6 (MOSEL; 2006-2009): 16.7 M DKK (~2,956M KRW)
- Advanced Technology Foundation (02.2010-02.2012): 2.16M DKK (~382M KRW)
- NATEC, Villum Center of Excellence (09.2008-08.2014): 25M DKK (~4,423M KRW)
Professional activities
- Co-organizer of European Semiconductor Laser Workshop (2017)
- Organizer of European VCSEL Day Workshop (2008)
- Vice-chair of Scientific program committee, Europe-Korea Conference on Science and Technology (EKC; 2017).
- Program committee, High-Contrast Metastructures, SPIE Photonics West (2013-2019)
- Program committee, Nanoelectronics & Photonics, Nano Korea (2015-2016)
- Program committee, IEEE Group IV Photonics (2017)
- Sub-program committee, OECC (2018).
- Reviewer for national grant-proposal in France and Poland.
Peer review journal referee
- Laser and Photonics Review
- Scientific Reports
- Optica
- Optics Letters
- Optics Express
- Applied Physics Letters
- Journal of Lightwave Technology
- IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
- IEEE Photonics Journal
- IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
- Electronics Letters
- Optical and Quantum Electronics
- Applied Physics B
- Optics Communications