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Biographical Background
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Jongyoon Han
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Associate Professor of Biological Engineering
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Biographical Background
Professor Jongyoon Han is a principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received the B.S. degree in the department of physics of Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1992. He received the M.S. degree in physics from the same department in 1994.
Professor Han received his Ph.D. in applied and engineering physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 2001. While a graduate research assistant at Cornell, he earned wide recognition for his pioneering work to build and test an innovative "laboratory on a chip" possessing the capability to perform DNA sequencing in minutes rather than the hours typical of conventional technology.
Before joining MIT as Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering in July 2002, he was a research scientist at Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA where he studied protein microfluidic separation systems. In 2003, he received a second MIT faculty appointment as Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering, and in 2004 he was appointed Karl Van Tassel Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. Professor Han's current research interests revolve around the application of micro and nanofabrication technology to various fundamental biology problems, including the separation and analysis of biomolecules.
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