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Sunghoon Kwon

Sunghoon Kwon is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Sunghoon Kwon rather than just read about it. In short: Sunghoon Kwon (born 23 December 1975) a Korean biomedical engineer and an entrepreneur. He is the professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University in Republic of Korea and the CEO of Quantamatrix.

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Sunghoon Kwon (born 23 December 1975) a Korean biomedical engineer and an entrepreneur. He is the professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University in Republic of Korea and the CEO of Quantamatrix.

Education and early life Sunghoon Kwon was born on 23 December 1975 in Seoul; he studied at Yeoksam Middle School and Sangmun High School; he studied at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Seoul National University to become a programmer because he was interested in computer programming since he was a child. In the third year of college, he was admitted to the hospital due to a serious traffic accident, and his dream changed to biomedical engineering as he saw electronic and electrical technologies such as Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) play an important role in medicine. Sunghoon Kwon studied medical devices mainly for doctors at the Department of Medical Engineering at Seoul National University and received a master's degree with the theme of developing a wireless mouse that moves according to eye movements for the disabled. Later, he entered the doctoral program at UC Berkeley, where he studied bio / optical MEMS and lab on a chip system for biomaterial analysis. In 2003, he completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Luke Pyungse Lee. in three and a half years and studied nanomaterials and nanoprocessing at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Career Ever since he was appointed professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University, he wanted to give tools or devices to life scientists and medical doctors that they needed at the cutting edge of their research to enable innovations. Therefore, for the last 14 years, he and his group have worked towards realization of personalized medicine under the motto: "helping life scientist with technology." and have made technological breakthroughs in personalized medicine that resulted in 80 scientific literatures, 130 patents and 2 spun-off companies hiring more than 200 full-time employees. He focused on developing technologies for life scientists and medical doctors to improve personalized therapeutics to reduce the breakdown cost for disease treatment. Kwon's research includes work on multiplex bio assay platform, single cell analysis and algorithm for immune profiling

Awards and honors

Sunghoon Kwon was invited to deliver a plenary talk in IEEE OMN (2020) and delivered invited lectures in international conferences including TEDx talk in Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies (KFAS) (2018) and IEEE MEMS (2017). He was appointed as one of the eight SNU Creative Distinguished Professors of Seoul National University in 2012. He gained academic recognition of his excellence from both engineering and science by winning many awards including the Young Scientist Award (2011), Korean Young Scientist Award (2012), IEEK/IEEE Joint Awards IT Young Engineer Award (2016), NAEK Young Engineer Award from the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (2018) and the Jin-Pok Kim Award for Best Cancer Research in Korea from Korea Cancer Research Foundation (2019). Kwon is one of few scientists who has early career awards from both National Science Academy and National Engineering Academy at the same time. He is the first Korean winner of the 13th Pioneers of Miniaturization Lectureship, Lab on a Chip Journal (2018). In 2022, he was a Scientist of the Month. Kwon is a member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK, 2020) and a member of the Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST, 2017). Kwon served in technical program committees in several societies, including MicroTAS, IEEE MEMS, and Transducers.

Selected publications Lim, D. K.; Jeon, K. S.; Hwang, J. H.; Kim, H.; Kwon, S.; Suh, Y. D.; & Nam, J. M. (2011). Highly uniform and reproducible surface-enhanced Raman scattering from DNA-tailorable nanoparticles with 1-nm interior gap. Nature nanotechnology, 6(7), 452. doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2011.79 Kim, H.; Ge, J.; Kim, J.; Choi, S. E.; Lee, H.; Lee, H.; Park, W.; Yin, Y.; & Kwon, S. (2009). Structural colour printing using a magnetically tunable and lithographically fixable photonic crystal. Nature Photonics, 3(9), 534–540. doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2009.141 Chung, S. E.; Park, W.; Shin, S.; Lee, S. A.; & Kwon, S. (2008). Guided and fluidic self-assembly of microstructures using railed microfluidic channels. Nature materials, 7(7), 581–587. doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2208 Chan, S.; Kwon, S.; Koo, T. W.; Lee, L. P.; & Berlin, A. A. (2003). Surface‐Enhanced Raman Scattering of Small Molecules from Silver‐Coated Silicon Nanopores. Advanced Materials, 15(19), 1595–1598. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.200305149 Lee, H.; Kim, J.; Kim, H.; Kim, J.; & Kwon, S. (2010). Colour-barcoded magnetic microparticles for multiplexed bioassays. Nature materials, 9(9), 745–749. doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2815 Kim, J.; Chung, S. E.; Choi, S. E.; Lee, H.; Kim, J.; & Kwon, S. (2011). Programming magnetic anisotropy in polymeric microactuators. Nature materials, 10(10), 747-752. doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3090 Ge, J.; Lee, H.; He, L.; Kim, J.; Lu, Z.; Kim, H.; Goebl, J.; Kwon, S.; & Yin, Y. (2009). Magnetochromatic microspheres: rotating photonic crystals. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131(43), 15687–15694. doi:https://doi.org/10.1021/ja903626h Chung, S. E.; Park, W.; Park, H.; Yu, K.; Park, N.; & Kwon, S. (2007). Optofluidic maskless lithography system for real-time synthesis of photopolymerized microstructures in microfluidic channels. Applied Physics Letters, 91(4), 041106. doi:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2759988 Choi, J.; Yoo, J.; Lee, M.; Kim, E. G.; Lee, J. S.; Lee, S.; Joo, S.; Song, S. H.; Kim, E.; Lee, J. C.; Kim, H. C.; Jung, Y.; & Kwon, S. (2014). A rapid antimicrobial susceptibility test based on single-cell morphological analysis. Science translational medicine, 6(267), 267ra174-267ra174. doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.3009650 Bae, H. J.; Bae, S.; Park, C.; Han, S.; Kim, J.; Kim, L. N.; Kim, K.; Song, S.; Park, W.; & Kwon, S. (2015). Biomimetic Microfingerprints for Anti‐Counterfeiting Strategies. Advanced Materials, 27(12), 2083–2089. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201405483

External links Biophotonics and Nano Engineering Lab Quantamatrix Celemics

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

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Applications of Sunghoon Kwon

In research: Sunghoon Kwon appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Sunghoon Kwon in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Sunghoon Kwon is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1975 births, Academic staff of Seoul National University, Biomedical engineers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Sunghoon Kwon outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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