PROFESSOR
Lab Director
Keon Jae Lee
(이건재)
KAIST Vice President, Institute for Technology Value Creation (ITVC)
KAIST Endowed Chair Professor, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)
Executive Director, KAIST Technology Licensing Office (TLO)
Executive Director, KAIST Industrial Liaison Program (ILP)
Director, Global Biointegrated Materials Center (ERC)
Dept. of Electrical Engineering (School of Semiconductor Technology)
Young KAIST Member of Korea Academy of Science and Technology (KAST)
Editorial Board, Advanced Materials (Wiley, IF=32)
Co-founder & CTO, FRONICS Inc.
Contact
Address | W-1 Building #4306, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST (Map) |
| Number | Phone: 82-42-350-3343 Fax: 82-42-350-3310 |
| keonlee@kaist.ac.kr | |
| Site | URL: http://hand.kaist.ac.kr (LAB) CV: Prof. Lee's CV Google Scholar: http://goo.gl/eyzp9W (h-index: 86) |
Education
| Education | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States. (Ph.D, 2006) Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (B.S., 2001) Daewon Foreign Language High School (1994) |
| Courses | Spring: MS415 (Introduction to Semiconductor Devices) Coursera Link Fall: MS635 (Semiconductor Process Design) |
Experience
2024 - Current | KAIST Vice President, Institute for Technology Value Creation (ITVC) |
2024 - Current | Executive Director, KAIST Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) |
2024 - Current | Executive Director, KAIST Technology Licensing Office (TLO) |
2022 - Current | KAIST endowed Chair Professor (KAIST 지정 석좌교수) |
2018 - Current | Professor, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST |
2024 - Current | Director, Global Biointegrated Materials Center (ERC) |
2020 - Current | Editorial Board, Advanced Materials (Wiley, Impact Factor=32, http://bit.ly/3rOpUci) |
2016 - Current | Co-founder & CTO, FRONICS Inc. (http://fronics.com) |
2025 - Current | Chairman of Board, Mirae Holdings. Ltd (https://www.miraeholdings.com) Board Member, KAIST Holdings. Ltd (https://www.kaistholdings.com) |
2018 - 2020 | Young KAST member, Korea Academy of Science and Technology (차세대 한국과학기술한림원 회원) |
2019 - 2024 | Director, Center for Humanplus Artificial Intelligent Sensor |
2021 - 2023 | Director, Strategic Collaboration R&D of Materials, Parts and Equipments |
2021 - 2023 | Founder & Director, KAIST Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) |
2021 - 2023 | Director, KAIST University-Industrial Liasion Center (산학협력 센터장) |
2019 - 2020 | Visiting Professor, Brain Science Institute, KIST (한국과학기술연구원 뇌과학연구소) |
2009 - 2018 | Assistant & Associate Professor, Dept. of MSE, KAIST |
2020 Aug | Guest Editor of Advanced Materials (IF=32), 'Special Issue on KAIST 50th Anniversary' |
2019 May | Guest Editor of Nano Energy (IF=19), 'Special Issue on 4th NGPT in Korea' |
2018 May | Chair of 4th International Conference on Nanogenerator and Piezotronics |
2013 - 2014 | Visiting Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA |
2012 - 2015 | Director, Flexible and Nanobio National Research Lab. |
2011 - 2016 | Executive Constultant to KOLON, Center for KOLON Lifestyle Innovation |
2006 - 2008 | Semiconductor Design Staff, Unistantis Electronics (https://unisantis.com) |
Research
Current | Flexible piezoelectric acoustic sensors Flexible III-V microLED Neuromorphic Computing Memristor, PRAM & Flexible LSI Laser induced Electronics Stretchable healthcare sensors |
Honor and Awards
| 2024 | Prof. Lee won 'Scientist of The Month Award' from Minister of Science and Technology (과기부 '이달의 과학자상') |
| 2023 | 'Top 100 National Research and Development Achievements'. (과기부) 'Best Materials Science Scientists ' for Top 100 highly cited researcher. (research.com) '2023 KAIST Impact Research Award' for top 1% citation among KAIST Engineering School |
| 2022 | Academic Award from KMRS (한국재료학회 학술상) '2022 KAIST Impact Research Award' |
| 2021 | Deputy Prime Minister's Award (부총리상) '2021 KAIST Impact Research Award' |
| 2020 | '2020 KAIST Impact Research Award' |
| 2019 | '2019 KAIST Technology Innovation Award' |
| 2018 | Young KAST member from Korean Academy of Science and Technology |
| 2017 | Outstanding Paper Award from Nano Convergence 'KAIST Institute Fusion Research Award |
| 2015 | 'Advanced Materials Scientist Award' from International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM, Sweden) '2014 KAIST Top 10 Research Award' |
| 2014 | Invited talk at Summer Davos Forum as KAIST Representative. Minister's Award from Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning. (미래창조과학부 장관상 수상) |
| 2012 | Flexible battery is highlighted in Nature as ' The Most Viewed Papers in Science'. '2012 Merck Young Scientists Awards' from 12th International Meeting on Information Display. (IMID, Aug 12) |
| 2011 | '2011 KAIST Technology Innovation Award' |
| 2010 | Thin Film Nanogenerator is selected as 'Top 10 Lifestyle Innovation Technology', Donga Science |
| 2009 | George Smith Award for the best paper published in IEEE Elect. Dev. Lett. in 2008 |
| 2006 | The patents of printed semiconductor technology are licensed to Semprius Inc. Printed semiconductor technology won 2006 Innovation Award of Wall Street Journal |
Academic Committee
학회 활동 | Advanced Materials (Wiley, IF 32), Editorial Board Member 2018 Chair of NGPT (International Conference of Nanogenerators and Piezotronics, Seoul Korea) 한국 재료학회 (Korean MRS) 이사 대한 금속 재료학회 (Korean Institute of Metals and Materials) 학술위원 대한 금속 재료학회 재료마당 편집위원 한국 전기전자재료학회 (Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers) 이사 ICAE (International Conference on Advanced Electromaterials) 조직위원 & 이사 ENGE (International Conference on Electronic Materials and Nanotechnology for Green Environment) 조직 위원 한국 반도체학술대회 나노분과 위원 국가과학기술연구회 IoT 및 웨어러블 기기 융합클러스터 위원 미국 Material Research Society (MRS) 멤버 |
Lab Director
Keon Jae Lee (이건재)
KAIST Vice President, Institute for Technology Value Creation (ITVC)
KAIST Endowed Chair Professor (KAIST 지정 석좌교수)
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), KAIST
Executive Director, KAIST Technology Licensing Office (TLO)
Executive Director, KAIST Industrial Liaison Program (ILP)
Director, Global Biointegrated Materials Center (ERC)
Dept. of Electrical Engineering (School of Semiconductor Technology)
Young KAST Member, Korea Academy of Science and Technology (KAST)
Editorial Board, Advanced Materials (Wiley, IF=29)
Co-founder & CTO, FRONICS Inc.
Contact
Address | W-1 Building #4306, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST (Map) 373-1 Guseong Dong, Yusung-gu, Daejeon, Korea, ZIP: 305-701 (Google Map) |
Number | Phone: 82-42-350-3343 Fax: 82-42-350-3310 |
| keonlee@kaist.ac.kr | |
Site | URL: http://hand.kaist.ac.kr CV: Prof. Lee's CV Google Scholar: http://goo.gl/eyzp9W (h-index: 88) |
Education
Education | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States. (Ph.D, 2006) Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (B.S., 2001) Daewon Foreign Language High School (1994) |
Courses | Spring: MS415 (Introduction to Semiconductor Devices) Fall: MS635 (Semiconductor Process Design) Coursera Link |
Experience
2024 - Current | KAIST Vice President, Institute for Technology Value Creation (ITVC) |
2024 - Current | Executive Director, KAIST Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) |
2024 - Current | Executive Director, KAIST Licensing Office (TLO) |
2022 - Current | KAIST Endowed Chair Professor (KAIST 지정 석좌교수) |
2018 - Current | Professor, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST |
2024 - Current | Executive Director, Global Biointegrated Materials Center (ERC, 총 140억원) |
2020 - Current | Editorial Board, Advanced Materials (Wiley, Impact Factor=32, http://bit.ly/3rOpUci) |
2016 - Current | Co-founder & Advisor, FRONICS Inc. (http://fronics.com) |
2025 - Current | Chairman of Board, Mirae Holdings. Ltd (https://www.miraeholding.com, 미래과학기술지주 이사회 의장) Board Member, KAIST Holdings. Ltd (https://www.kaistholdings.com) |
2018 - 2020 | Young KAST member, Korea Academy of Science and Technology (차세대 한국과학기술한림원 회원) |
2021 - 2023 | Executive Director, Strategic Collaboration R&D of Materials, Parts and Equipments (총 140억원) |
2019 - 2023 | Director, Center for Humanplus Artificial Intelligent Sensor |
2021 - 2023 | Founder & Director, KAIST Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) |
2021 - 2023 | Director, KAIST University-Industrial Liaison Center (산학협력 센터장) |
2019 - 2020 | Visiting Professor, Brain Science Institute, KIST (한국과학기술연구원 뇌과학연구소) |
2009 - 2018 | Assistant & Associate Professor, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST |
2020 Aug | Guest Editor of Advanced Materials (IF=32), 'Special Issue on KAIST 50th Anniversary' |
2019 May | Guest Editor of Nano Energy (IF=19), 'Special Issue on 4th NGPT in Korea' |
2018 May | Chair of 4th International Conference on Nanogenerator and Piezotronics (NGPT) |
2013 - 2014 | Visiting Professor, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA |
2012 - 2015 | Director, Flexible and Nanobio National Research Lab. |
2011 - 2016 | Executive Constultant to KOLON, Center for KOLON-KAIST Lifestyle Innovation |
2006 - 2008 | Semiconductor Design Staff, Unisantis Electronics |
Research
Current Research | Flexible piezoelectric acoustic sensors Flexible III-V microLED for display and biomedical applications Neuromorphic Computing Flexible large scale integration (LSI) Memristor, phase change memory & Flexible LSI Laser material interactions for flexible electronics Stretchable healthcare sensors Self-powered flexible electronic systems |
Research Experience | Self-powered device and sensor
Laser material interaction for flexible electronics and nanomaterials
Flexible inorganic microLED
Neuromorphic memory devices (Memristor, Phase change memory)
Materials Analysis
Microfabricaton & Electrical property measurement
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Honor and Awards
2025 | Prof. Lee won 'Scientist of The Month Award' (과기부 '이달의 과학자상') |
2023 | Prof. Lee won 'Top 100 National Research and Development Achievements'. (과기부 '국가연구개발 우수성과 100선') Prof. Lee won '2023 KAIST Impact Research Award' for top 1% citation among KAIST Engineering School |
2022 | Prof. Lee won Academic Award from MRS-K. (한국재료학회 학술상) Prof. Lee won 'Best Materials Science Scientists in South Korea' for Top 100 highly cited researcher. (research.com) Prof. Lee won '2022 KAIST Impact Research Award' for top 1% citation among KAIST Engineering School |
2021 | Prof. Lee won Deputy Prime Minister's Award. (부총리상 수상) Prof. Lee won '2021 KAIST Impact Research Award' for top 1% citation among KAIST Engineering School |
2020 | Prof. Lee won '2020 KAIST Impact Research Award' for top 1% citation among KAIST Engineering School |
2019 | Prof. Lee won '2019 KAIST Technology Innovation Award' Prof. Lee won '2019 KAIST Impact Research Award' for top 1% citation among KAIST Engineering School |
2018 | Prof. Lee was selected for Young KAST member from Korean Academy of Science and Technology |
2017 | Prof. Lee won Outstanding Paper Award from Nano Convergence Prof. Lee won KAIST Institute Fusion Research Award |
2015 | Prof. Lee won 'Advanced Materials Scientist Award' from International Association of Advanced Materials (Sweden) Prof. Lee won '2014 KAIST Top 10 Research Award' |
2014 | Prof. Lee gave an invited talk at Summer Davos Forum as KAIST Representative. Prof. Lee won Minister's Award from Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning. (미래창조과학부 장관상 수상) Cover feature articles for Advanced Materials (April, July & Nov), Advanced Functional Materials (May), and Small (Jan). Prof. Lee gave an invited talk at Harvard University and MIT, Boston. |
2012 | Flexible battery is highlighted in Nature as ' The Most Viewed Papers in Science'. Prof. Lee won '2012 Merck Young Scientists Awards' from International Meeting on Information Display. (IMID, Aug 12) FAND group was selected for National Research Laboratory from National Research Foundation of Korea. Prof. Lee gave 'Keynote Speak' at International SPIE Conference (San Diego, Aug 2012) Prof. Lee gave 'Plenary Speak' at International Conference of Chinese Society of Micro-Nano Technology (Nov 2012) |
2011 | Prof. Lee won '2011 KAIST Technology Innovation Award' |
2010 | Thin Film Nanogenerator is selected as 'Top 10 Lifestyle Innovation Technology', Donga Science |
2009 | George Smith Award for the best paper published in IEEE Elect. Dev. Lett. in 2008 |
2006 | Three dimensional chips are published in Science The patents of printed semiconductor technology are licensed to Semprius Inc. Printed semiconductor technology won 2006 Innovation Award of Wall Street Journal Cover feature article for the Jan issue of Nature Materials |
Representative Publications
Corresponding Author, KAIST | "Wearable Blood Pressure Sensors for Cardiovascular Monitoring and Machine Learning Algorithms for Blood Pressure Estimation" Nature Reviews Cardiology, DOI s41569-025-01127 "Universal Selective Transfer Printing via Micro-vacuum Force" Nature Comm., 14, 7744, 2023 "Simultaneous emulation of synaptic and intrinsic plasticity using a memristive synapse" Nature Comm., 13, 2811, 2022 "Laser-induced Phase Separation of silicon carbide" Nature Comm., 7, 13562, 2016 "Clinical Validation of a Wearable Piezoelectric Blood-Pressure Sensor for Continuous Health Monitoring" Adv. Mater., 26, 2301627, 2023 "Biomimetic Flexible Piezoelectric Mobile Acoustic Sensors for Machine Learning Biometrics" Sci. Adv., 7, eabe5683, 2021 "Clinical Validation of Face-Fit Surface Lighting Micro LED Mask for Skin Anti-Aging" Adv. Mater., 36, 2411651, 2024 "Self-Powered Real-Time Arterial Pulse Monitoring using Epidermal Piezoelectric Sensors", Adv. Mater., 29, 1702308, 2017 "Progress in Brain-Compatible Interfaces with Soft Nanomaterials", Adv. Mater., 32, 1907522, 2020"Flexible Piezoelectric Acoustic Sensor and Machine Learning for Speech Processing", Adv. Mater., 32, 1904020, 2020 "Flexible PZT Thin Film Nanogenerator using Laser Lift off" Adv. Mater. 26, 2514,2014 "Micro Light-Emitting Diodes for Display and Biomedical Applications", Adv. Funct. Mater, 29, 1808075, 2019 "Theoretical Basis of Biomimetic Flexible Piezoelectric Acoustic Sensors" Adv. Funct. Mater, 2309316, 2023 "Machine Learning-based Self-powered Acoustic Sensor for Speaker Recognition", Nano Energy, 53, 658, 2018 "Flexible Crossbar-Structured Phase Change Memory Array ", Adv. Funct. Mater., 29, 1806338, 2019 "Wearable Surface-Lighting Micro-Light-Emitting Diode Patch for Melanogenesis Inhibition"Adv. Healthc. Mater., 12, 2201796, 2023 "Trichogenic Photostimulation Using Flexible Micro LED", ACS Nano, 12, 9587, 2018 "Bio-plausible Memristive Neural Components towards Brain-like Intelligence" Materials Today 62, 251, 2023 "Monolithic Flexible Vertical GaN LED for Transparent Wireless Brain Optical Stimulator", Adv. Mater., 30, 1800649, 2018 "Optogenetic Control of Body Movements via Flexible Vertical Light-Emitting Diodes", Nano Energy, 44, 447, 2018 "Flash Light Millisecond Self-Assembly of High χ Block Copolymers", Adv. Mater., 29, 1700595, 2017 "Laser Material Interaction for Flexible Application" Adv. Mater. 29, 1603473, 2017 "Flash-Induced Self-Limited Plasmonic Welding of Silver Nanowire Network" Adv. Mater. 29, 1603473, 2017 "Skin-Like Oxide Thin-Film Transistors for Transparent Displays" Adv. Funct. Mater., 26, 6170, 2016 "Self-powered Deep Brain Stimulation via a Flexible PIMNT Energy Harvester" Energy Environ. Sci. 8, 2677, 2015 "Self-Structured Conductive Filament Nanoheater for Phase Change Memory" ACS Nano, 9, 6587, 2015 "Performance Enhancement of Electronic and Energy Devices via Block Copolymer Self-Assembly" Adv. Mater., 27, 3982, 2015 "Hyper-Stretchable Elastic Composite Energy Harvester " Adv. Mater., 27, 2866, 2015 "Flexible Phase Change Memory Array via Block Copolymer Self-assembly" ACS Nano, 9, 4120, 2015 "Flexible Crossbar Resistive Memory Arrays via Inorganic-based Laser Lift-off " Adv. Mater., 26, 7480, 2014 "Flexible Inorganic Piezoelectric Acoustic Nanosensor for Biomimetic Artificial Hair Cell" Adv. Func. Mater., 24, 6914, 2014 "Self-powered Fully-Flexible Light Emitting Systems enabled by Flexible Energy Harvester " Energy Environ. Sci., 7, 4035, 2014 "Self-Powered Cardiac Pacemaker by Flexible Nanogenerator" Adv. Mater. 26, 4880, 2014 "Bendable Inorganic Thin-Film Battery for Fully Flexible Electronic Systems", Nano Letters, 12, 4810, 2012. "Flexible Nanocomposite Generator Made of BaTiO3 Nanoparticles and Graphitic Carbons", Adv. Mater., 24, 2999, 2012. "Flexible Memristive Memory Array on Plastic Substrates", Nano Letters, 11, 5438, 2011 "Piezoelectric BaTiO3 Thin Film Nanogenerator on Plastic Substrates", Nano Letters, 10, 4939, 2010. "Water-resistant Flexible GaN LED on LCP Substrate for Implantable Biomedical Applications", Nano Energy, 1, 145, 2012. "Reliable Control of Filament Formation in Resistive Memories by Self-assembled Block Copolymer" ACS Nano, 8 9492, 2014 "Self-assembled BCP Incorporation in Phase-change Memory for Switching Power Reduction", ACS Nano, 7, 2651, 2013. "In vivo Silicon Based Flexible RFICs Monolithically Encapsulated with LCP", ACS Nano, 7, 4545, 2013. |
In UIUC | "Heterogeneous Three Dimensional Electronics by Use of Printed Semiconductor Nanomaterials", Science, 314, 1754, 2006. “Transfer Printing by Kinetic Control of Adhesion to Soft, Elastomeric Stamp”, Nature Materials, 5, 33, 2006. "Large Area, Selective Transfer of High Performance Si Transistors on Flexible Substrates", Adv. Mater., 17, 2336, 2005. |
Academic Committee
Academic Committee Member (학회 활동) | Adv. Mater. (Wiley, IF 32), Editorial Board (Link) 2018 Chair of NGPT (International Conference of Nanogenerators and Piezotronics, Seoul Korea) 한국 재료학회 (Korean MRS) 이사 대한 금속 재료학회 (Korean Institute of Metals and Materials) 학술위원 대한 금속 재료학회 재료마당 편집위원 한국 전기전자재료학회 (Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers) 이사 ICAE (International Conference on Advanced Electromaterials) 조직위원 & 이사 ENGE (International Conference on Electronic Materials and Nanotechnology for Green Environment) 조직 위원 한국 반도체학술대회 나노분과 위원 국가과학기술연구회 IoT 및 웨어러블 기기 융합클러스터 위원 미국 Material Research Society (MRS) 멤버 |
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