His current research interests are focused on the nanofabrication of soft nanomaterials including liquid crystals, polymers, supramolecules, and bio-macromolecules. He received his Ph.D. (2007) from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from KAIST, Korea. He worked as a postdoctoral associate at the University of Colorado, Boulder, for two years, after two years of industrial experience at Samsung Electronics.