Members

Principal Investigator

Jaewook Ahn (jwahn@kaist.ac.kr) brief CV

Professor, Department of Physics
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
373-1 Guseong-dong, Daejeon 305-501, Korea

Office: Natural Science Building E6-2-3305
Phones: +82-42-350-2546 (direct), 2586 (secretary, lab1), 5546 (lab2), 2510 (fax)

Teaching:
No teaching (Sabbatical year, 2017 Fall - 2018 Spring)
General Physics PH152 (2017 Spring)
Atomic and Molecular Physics PH401 (2016 Fall)
General Physics II PH152 (2016 Spring)
Nonlinear Optics PH721 (2015 Fall)
Advanced Physics PH161 (2015 Spring)

Ph.D. Candidates

HanLae Jo (whgksfo@kaist.ac.kr)

Research: Strong-field coherent control

Minhyuk Kim (mugreen@kaist.ac.kr)

Research: Rydberg atom quantum computing

Yunheung Song (ysong@kaist.ac.kr)
Research: Ultrafast Optics and Quantum Information

Andrew Woojeong Byun (byunandy@kaist.ac.kr)

Research: Coherent control in Rydberg atom system

Haeun Sun (tjsgkdms@kaist.ac.kr)

Research:

Hansub Hwang (gkstjq1010@kaist.ac.kr)

Research:

Technical Staff

Eunjung Jo (jojo@kaist.ac.kr)

Lab Technician

Lab Alumni

Woojun Lee (ujun0909@kaist.ac.kr)

Former graduate student
Ph. D. Thesis: Formation and control of Rydberg atom arrays for quantum information processing (KAIST, 11/12/2018).
Now at Seoul National University

Heejeong Jeong (hjjeong@um.edu.my)

Former research assistant professor (2018/08/15-2019/02/28)
Now at University of Malaya

Hyosub Kim (kkhhggg@kaist.ac.kr)

Former graduate student and postdoc.
Ph. D. Thesis: Reconfigurable single-atom array for Rydberg atom quantum simulation (KAIST, 12/05/2017).
Now at Los Alamos National Lab.

Geol Moon (cnuapi@jnu.ac.kr)
Former postdoc (2017/06-2017/12).
Now at Chonnam National University

Han-gyeol Lee (hgyeol@kaist.ac.kr)
Former graduate student and postdoc.
Ph.D. Thesis: Quantum control of cold alkali atoms by using hybrid temporal-spectral pulse shaping (KAIST, 11/29/2016).
Now at University of Kassel

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Adam Massey (adamm@kaist.ac.kr)

Former graduate student (2016/03-2017/08)

Kyungtae Kim (kyungtae92@kaist.ac.kr)

Former graduate student (2015/07-2017/06)

Daehoon Han (handaemilk@kaist.ac.kr)

Ph.D. thesis: Lattice vibrations of minimal and polarization dependence of material in a slit using terahertz waves (5/27/2016).
Now at Semiconductor R&D Center, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Kanghee Lee (kangheelee@kaist.ac.kr)
Ph.D. thesis: Fourier optical phenomena and applications using ultra-broadband terahertz waves (5/23/2013).
Now at Bumki Min's Group.

Minwoo Yi (minuga@kaist.ac.kr)
Ph.D. thesis: Terahertz wave generation from semiconductor thin films and its applications (5/02/2012).
Now at Agency for Defense Development.

Junwoo Cho (jwcho99@kaist.ac.kr)
Ph.D. thesis: Enhancement of magneto-optical trap of ytterbium atoms via optical repumping of triplet P-states (11/25/2011).
Now at Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Youngchan Kim (chan@kaist.ac.kr)
Ph. D. thesis: Development of high-speed, high-resolution, and polarization-sensitive terahertz spectroscopic techniques (4/4/2011).
Now at National Institute of Health (USA).

Sangkyung Lee (skice@kaist.ac.kr)
Ph.D. thesis: Analytical coherent controls of Alkali atoms in strong field regime (11/26/2010).
Now at Agency for Defense Development.

Kyeong-Jin Jang (mongdal@kaist.ac.kr)
Ph.D. thesis: The study of coherent optical and acoustic phonons in correlated electron materials (CMR, multiferroic), (5/7/2010).
Now at Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

In-young Choi (iy0207@kaist.ac.kr)
Former Lab Secretary, 2009-2012.

Koji Nagata Obihiro University, Japan (former BK Research Professor).
Jae-uk Kim Summer undergraduate student in 2010.

Youngjun Kim (junee@kaist.ac.kr)
Former Technical Staff (2014.01-03)

Jongseok Lim (limjongseok@kaist.ac.kr)
Former student, post-doc, and research assistant professor
Ph.D. Thesis: Coherent Control in 2D Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (KAIST, 4/29/2011).
Now at Imperial College London.