Best Paper Award from the Optical Society of Korea for "Wide-Field Super-Resolution Imaging Using Randomly Localized Plasmonic Nanospeckles of Disordered Nanoislands" at Optics and Photonics Congress 2021 (OPC 2021, 4-7 July, 2021)

Selected as the cover of the issue 9 of Advanced Optical Materials for the paper "Disordered nanocomposite islands for nano-speckles illumination microscopy (NanoSIM) in wide-field super-resolution imaging"

Appointed as Vice President of the Optical Society of Korea

Elected as Fellow of SPIE

Elected as reviewer board (RB) member of the ICT Convergence Unit of the National Research Foundation of Korea

Selected to present poster “Opto-thermal response of plasmonic nanostructures based on metallic nanowire arrays,” in the 3-Minute Poster Competition at SPIE Photonics West, February 3, 2020

Participant in the 12th HOPE Meeting (in Tsukuba, 9 - 13 March, 2020) supported by the NRF of Korea and the JSPS of Japan

BEST Outstanding Student Fellow 2019 (BK Program)

Best Poster Award for delivering outstanding poster presentation (titled 'Recognition of surface plasmon scattering based on deep learning') to the Europe-Korea Conference on Science and Technology 2019 (EKC2019)

Participant in the EU-Korea Conference (July 12-20, 2019)