He was an assistant professor from 2012 to 2017 at Korea University. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2012. He was a postdoctoral associate at Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, in 2012. He completed his B.S. degree in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Seoul National University in 2003. He worked as an engineer in CyverCVS and KEBT from 2003 to 2006. His research interests involve energy and mass transport in multiscale applications, such as thermal-chemical-electrical energy conversion in hybrid structures, energy storage materials, active control of thermal energy, thermal-fluidic sensing platform utilizing electrical energy generation.