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My Photo Distinguished Research Professor

Institute for the Early Universe &
Research Center of MEMS Space Telescope
Ewha Womans University

Science Building B-557,
Ewha Womans University
11-1 Daehyun-Dong, Seodaemun-Gu, 120-750, Korea
+82-2-3277-5953, koonam@ewha.ac.kr
+82-2-3278-3415 (fax)
  NATIONALITY: Republic of Korea, PLACE OF BIRTH: Daegu, Korea

 

EDUCATION

  - PH.D. in MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (May 2010)
    University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
     
    Major : MEMS/Nano
    Minor : Manufacturing (super precision manufacturing), and Electrical Engineering
     
    Research Advisor : Professor Liwei Lin (co-Director of BSAC)
     
  - MASTER of SCIENCE in MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (May 2008)
    University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
     
    Research Advisor : Professor Liwei Lin
     
  - BACHELOR of SCIENCE in MECHANICAL MATERIAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (May 2007, with honors)
    University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
     
  - BACHELOR of SCIENCE in MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (May 2007, with honors)
    University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

AWARDS AND HONORS

  - Robert F. Steidel Jr. Memorial Award, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of California, Berkeley, 2009.
  - International House Room and Board Scholarship - University of California, Berkeley, 2009-10.
  - Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award - GSI Teaching and Resource Center, University of California, Berkeley, 2009
  - Best Poster Award - Industrial Advisory Board Meeting, BSAC, 2009
  - Graduated with Honors - University of California, Berkeley, 2007.
  - International House Room and Board Scholarship - University of California, Berkeley, 2007-08.
  - Undergraduate Tuition and Fee Award - University of California, Berkeley, 2006-07.
  - May T. Koshland Scholarship - University of California, Berkeley, 2005-06.
  - Gold Medal of Merit - Korea National Red Cross, 2006.
  - Silver Medal of Merit - Korea National Red Cross, 2001.

RESEARCH INTEREST

  - Biofouling Detection and Optimum Countermeasure
  - Energy Squeezing
  - Nanomanufacturing and fabrication for nanoscale structures
  - Self-patterned Nanochannel
  - Super precision manufacturing for nanostructures
  - Optical MEMS sensor and packaging

CURRERN RESEARCH PROJECTS

  - Hermetic Optical Feed-through for MEMS Packaging (UC Berkeley & Sandia National Laboratory, Jun 2007 - present)
  - Mircoscale Bio-fouling Optical Sensor (UC Berkeley, Jun 2008 - present)
  - Magnetic Shielding and Fabrication of Micromachined Gyroscopes Using Spin-Polarized Nuclei (UC Berkeley & NIST, Feb 2009 - present)

PAST RESEARCH PROJECTS

  - Study for Revision of Korean Aeronautical law (Korea Aerospace Research Institute and Civil Aviation Safety Authority)
  - Aviation Safety Management System (Ministry of Construction & Transportation and Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
  - Intelligent Transportation System (Ministry of Construction & Transportation and LG CNS)

TEACHING

  - Graduate Student Instructor, Mechanical Engineering 119 - Introduction to MEMS, Fall 2008
  - Graduate Student Instructor, Engineering 10 - Engineering Design and Analysis, Wet chemistry module, Fall 2007

PERSONAL INTERESTS & COMMUNITIES

  - Berkeley Korean Graduate Student Association [KGSA] (President, 2009-10)
  - MENSA Korea, Anti-gravity SIG (Chairperson, 2000-present)

EMPLOYMENTS

  - Monthly Aerospace Korea, Seoul, Korea
  - Korea Aerospace Research Institute, Daejon, Korea
  - Civil Aviation Safety Authority, Seoul, Korea
  - Ministry of Construction & Transportation, Gwachon, Korea
  - Jangwoo ITS, Seoul, Korea
  - Sungjin Ready-mixed Concrete, Inc, Incheon, Korea

COMPUTER SKILLS

  - Programming tools : Boland Delphi (Pascal), Turbo C (C languate), Visual C++ (C++), Visual Basic (Basic), JAVA, Fortran, Cobol, etc.
  - Database : MS-SQL, ORACLE, MS-access (MDB), etc.
  - Scientific Languages : MATLAB, Mathematica, Maple, LabView, etc.
  - Graphics : AutoCAD, Solidworks, Illustrator, MS-PAINT!!!, etc.
  - Analysis packages : ANSYS
  - MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point)

 

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