Group leader
Il-Sug Chung
– Tenured Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, UNIST, Korea (2018-)
– Tenured Associate Professor of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (DTU) (2011-2019)
– Assistant Professor of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (2009-2011)
– Ph.D. in Information and Communications, GIST, Korea
– MSc, BSc in Physics, KAIST, Korea
– Gyeonggi Science High School, Korea
– Email: ischung [at] unist.ac.kr
– Office: Bldg. 106, Rm. 601-6
Members
Jaesung Jeon
– Ms-PhD Program (September 2021 -)
– BA in EE, UNIST, Korea (2021.08, finishing in 7 semesters)
– Email: jeonky1111 [at] unist.ac.kr
– Research topics: Heterogenesouly integrated SOA, BIC lasers
Baek Hyeong Lee
– Ms-PhD Program (March 2022 -)
– BA in EE, University of Suwon, Korea (2022)
– Email: dlqorgud97 [at] unist.ac.kr
– Research topics: Silicon photonic integrated circuit
Wongon Lee
– Ms-PhD Program (March 2024-)
– BA in EE, UNIST, Korea (Feb, 2024)
– Email: wg6076 [at] unist.ac.kr
– Research topics: On-chip LiDAR
Sangmin Oh
– Ms-PhD Program (March 2024 -)
– BA in EE, UNIST, Korea (Feb, 2024)
– Email: ohri3421 [at] unist.ac.kr
– Research topics: Heterogeneously integrated laser and SOA
Seunghyeon Oh
– Ms Program (March 2024-)
– BA in EE, Korea University, Korea (Feb, 2024)
– Email: [at] unist.ac.kr
– Research topics: Photonic antenna
Aibek Bekberen
– Ms Porgram (March 2025-)
– BA in EE, UNIST, Korea (Feb, 2025)
– Email: aibekbekbergen [at] unist.ac.kr
– Research topics: Advanced optimizations
Sangeon Park
– Ms-PhD Program (March 2025-)
– BA in EE, UNIST, Korea (Feb, 2025)
– Email: play0787 [at] unist.ac.kr
– Research topics: BIC lasers
Juwon Kim
– Ms-PhD Program (March 2025-)
– BA in EE, UNIST, Korea (Feb, 2025)
– Email: z612612z [at] unist.ac.kr
– Research topics: Heterogeneously integrated lasers
Rifah Tasnim Islam
– Ms-PhD Program (March 2025-)
– BA in EEE, Daffodil International Univ., Bangladesh (Feb, 2024)
– Email: [at] unist.ac.kr
– Research topics: Nanophotonics
Staff
- Dahye Lee
– Administrative staff
– Email: llhopel [at] unist.ac.kr
- Saerom Park
– Administrative staff
– Email: srpark [at] unist.ac.kr
Alumni
- Yun-Ho Cho
– MS program, UNIST (2022.08)
– Thesis: Hyper-spectral spectrometer based on silicon photonics
– Samsung Electronics, VD Department, Korea
- HyunGu Kang
– MS program, UNIST (2022.08)
– Thesis: CMOS-sensor with nanostructure
– Samsung Electronics, Semiconductor Research Center, Korea
- Jinhyun Cha
– MS program, UNIST (2022.08)
– Thesis: Heterogeneously integrated DBR laser
– Samsung Electronics, LED Department, Korea
- Yao Wang
– MS program, UNIST (2022.02)
– Thesis: Study of Fano resonance in microring resonator and it thermal optic modulation
– Sicoya China
- Sushil Tandukar
– PhD program, DTU (2015.11-2019.01)
– Thesis: Hybrid micro-cavity lasers based on high-Q hybrid grating resonator
– Scantinel Photonics, Germany
- Vladimir Topic
– PhD program, DTU (2014.03-2019.02)
– Thesis: High-speed III-V on Si vertical cavity lasers
– NIL Technology, Denmark
- Alireza Taghizadeh
– PhD program, DTU (2013.02-2016.02)
– Thesis: Vertical cavity laser with a novel grating mirror
– Head of AI and Analytics at Bruel & Kjaer Vibro, Denmark
- Gyeong Cheol Park
– PhD program, DTU (2013.02-2016.02)
– Thesis: Vertical cavity laser with a novel grating mirror
– Co-founder and CTO of INOPTIX, Korea / Senior researcher at ETRI, Korea
- Soren Dhoore
– MSc program, DTU/Ghent University (-2014)
– Thesis: High-index-contrast gratings as high-Q resonators
– Infinera, USA
- Thor Ansbaek
– PhD program (co-supervised), DTU (-2012.08)
– Thesis: Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers for medical diagnosis
– Founder and CEO of Octlight
- Alexandra Lupi
– PhD program (co-supervised), DTU (-2015.09)
– Thesis: Towards electrically pumped nano lasers for Terabit communication
– Infineon Technologies
- Luca Carletti
– MSc program, DTU
– Professor at University of Brescia, Italy / Associate editor of APL Photonics
- Supannee Learkthanakhachon
– PhD program, DTU (2011.09-2015.02)
– Thesis: MEMS tunable nanostructure photodetector
– Lumentum
- Arnhold Simonsen
– BA program, DTU (2017): Dielectric meta surface for lenses
– Currently, PhD program @ DTU