He received his Ph.D. in Chemical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007. Then, he joined the research group of dr. Victor Klimov at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a director’s postdoctoral fellow. He has been a faculty member at KAIST since 2010. His research group at KAIST focuses on the semiconductor nanocrystals for the use in photocatalysis and light-emitting devices.