Education

• PhD: Medical Engineering and Medical Physics, Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (advisors: Subra Suresh, Michael S. Feld), USA
• MSc: Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• BSc: Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea (summa cum laude)

Professional Experience

• 2021–present Endowed Chair Professor, Department of Physics, KAIST, Korea
• 2024–present Director, Virtual 3D Biology Center, KAIST, Korea
• 2015–present Cofounder and CEO, Tomocube, Inc., Korea
• 2015–2024 Director, Creative Research Center of Time-Reversal Mirror, KAIST, Korea
• 2010–2021 Assistant / Associate / Full Professor, Department of Physics, KAIST, Korea

Honors and Awards

• 2026 Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award, Optica
• 2025 Asan Medical Award
• 2023 Elected Member, National Academy of Engineering of Korea
• 2023 Rising Scientist, The Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST)
• 2020 Elected Fellow, SPIE
• 2019 Microscopy Today Innovation Award, Microscopy Society of America
• 2018 Medal of Honor in Science and Technology, President of the Republic of Korea
• 2018 JinkiHong Creative Award, Yumin Cultural Foundation
• 2017 Elected Fellow, Optica (formerly OSA)
• 2017 IR52 Jang Young-shil Award, Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning

Research Interests

• Holotomography, AI, 3D Biology

Publications (Max 5)

• J. Lee, Y.W. Kim, H. Chang, H. Hugonnet, C. Oh, S. Lee, S.M. Hong, S. Jeon, Y. Park, "Incoherent dielectric tensor tomography for quantitative three-dimensional measurement of biaxial anisotropy," Nature Photonics (2026).J. Park, B. Bai, D. Ryu, T. Liu, C. Lee, Y. Luo, M.J. Lee, L. Huang, J. Shin, Y. Zhang, D. Ryu, Y. Li, G. Kim, H.S. Min, A. Ozcan, Y. Park, "Artificial intelligence-enabled quantitative phase imaging methods for life sciences," Nature Methods (2023).
• 3. S. Shin, J. Eun, S.S. Lee, C. Lee, H. Hugonnet, D.K. Yoon, S.H. Kim, J. Jeong, Y. Park, "Tomographic measurement of dielectric tensors at optical frequency," Nature Materials (2022).
• Y. Jo, H. Cho, W.S. Park, G. Kim, D. Ryu, Y.S. Kim, M. Lee, S. Park, M.J. Lee, H. Joo, H. Jo, S. Lee, S. Lee, H.S. Min, W.D. Heo, Y. Park, "Label-free multiplexed microtomography of endogenous subcellular dynamics using generalizable deep learning," Nature Cell Biology (2021).
• Y. Park, C. Depeursinge, G. Popescu, "Quantitative phase imaging in biomedicine," Nature Photonics (2018).