Honors & Awards

• 2025 Rising Stars in Chemical Engineering, MIT (2025)

• 2024 Rising Stars in Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford, MIT, UIUC, and CMU (2024)

• 2024 Path of Professorship, MIT (2024)

• List of Teachers Ranked Excellent by Their Students, UIUC (Spring 2022)

• Racheff Teaching Fellowship, UIUC (Spring 2022)

• PPG-MRL Research Assistantships Awards, UIUC (2020 – 2021)

• Brain Korea 21 Plus Scholarship, National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea (2015)

• Merit-based Scholarship (10%), Seoul National University (2014)

• Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award, Seoul National University (2013)

• Eminence Scholarship, Seoul National University (2012)

• Superior Academic Performance Scholarship, Seoul National University (2010 – 2011)

• Silver Prize, Korea Biology Olympiad (KBO) (2008)