1. Education

• Ph.D in School of Electrical Engineering [Sept. 2016 ~ Feb. 2020]

  •  Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea

  •  Research Thesis
    : Industrial-grade, Bending Insensitive, Transparent Nano-force Touch Sensor

  •  Advisor: Prof. Jun-Bo, Yoon

• M.S in School of Electrical Engineering [Mar. 2015 ~ Aug. 2016]

  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea

  • Advisor: Prof. Jun-Bo, Yoon

• B.S in School of Electrical Engineering [Feb. 2011 ~ Feb. 2015]

  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea

2. Working Experiences 

• Postdoctoral researcher [Jan. 2021 ~Dec.2023]

  • Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics, Northwestern University, United States

  • Principal investigator: Prof. John A. Rogers

  • Projects: Human-Interface Electronics System (Bio-Electronics & VR Feedback System)

• Postdoctoral researcher [Mar. 2020 ~ Dec. 2020]

  • Information & Electronics Research Institute, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea

  • Principal investigator: Prof. Jun-Bo, Yoon

  • Projects: Bending-insensitive tactile sensor for health monitoring

3. Honors and Award 

8. Selected as global 6 medical technology innovation from 2023 that could improve our lives.
“Wireless broadband acousto-mechanical sensing system for continuous physiological monitoring” Mashable Dec. 2023

7. Best Paper Award (“Device division”) in the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST, 2020.   "Industrial-grade Bending Insensitive, transparent Nano-force touch sensor", This award was presented to only one person among all the device division students. KAIST Jun. 2020.

6. KAIST`S TOP 10 RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS OF 2018. Industrial-grade Flexible Transparent Force Touch Sensor developed by Jae-Young Yoo, Min-Ho Seo, and Jun-Bo Yoon KAIST Apr. 2019.

5. Outstanding Paper Award Winner at ‘The 32th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS 2019)’. “Maximizing Percolation Effect Using sub-100 nm Nano-valley for High Performance Wearable Transparent Pressure Sensor” IEEE Jan. 2019.
(only 3 papers among 490 papers awarded, It is the first time that Korean university has been awarded.)

4. Silver Award at ‘26th Samsung Human Tech Paper Competition’. Jae-Young Yoo ‘s co-author paper entitled “Realization of nanolene- a 2D platform of 1D Nanowire array” Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Feb. 2020.

3. Silver Award at ‘25th Samsung Human Tech Paper Competition’. Jae-Young Yoo ‘s co-author paper entitled “Palladium Nanowire with Stress-Engineered Structure for Wide Range of H2 Detection with High Durability” Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Feb. 2019.

2. Video Abstract in International Websites. Jae-Young Yoo`s co-1st author paper entitled “Industrial Grade, Bending-Insensitive, Transparent Nano-Force Touch Sensor Via Enhanced Percolation Effect in a Hierarchical Nano-Composite Film” in Advanced Science News Oct. 2018. 

1. Press release in daily newspapers. Jae-Young Yoo`s co-1st author paper entitled “Industrial Grade, Bending- Insensitive, Transparent Nano-Force Touch Sensor Via Enhanced Percolation Effect in a Hierarchical Nano-Composite Film” in Advanced Functional Materials Sep. 2018.

4. Selected Papers (IF : Impact Factor, JCI : Journal Citation Indicator)

-     Wireless Broadband Acousto-Mechanical Sensors as Body Area Networks for Continuous Physiological Monitoring, Nature Medicine, 1-12, 2023 
[IF: 87.24, JCI rank : 1/204]

-     A wireless haptic interface for programmable patterns of touch across large areas of the skin, Nature Electronics. 5(9), 621, 2022
[IF: 33.69, JCI rank : 1/344 ]

-     Geometrically Structured Nanomaterials for Nanosensors, NEMS, and Nanosieves, Advanced Materials. 1907082, 2020  [IF: 32.09, JCI rank : 2/224]

-     Soft skin-interfaced mechano-acoustic sensors for real-time monitoring and patient feedback on respiratory and swallowing biomechanics,  npj Digital Medicine. 5(1), 147, 2022 [IF: 15.357, JCI rank : 1/159]

-     Simple, miniaturized biosensors for wireless mapping of thermoregulatory responses, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 237, 2023
[IF: 12.54, JCI rank : 3/137]

-     Biodegradable, three-dimensional colorimetric fliers for environmental monitoring, Science Advances. 8(51), 2022  [IF:14.98, JCI rank : 7/135]

-     Closed-Loop Network of Skin-interfaced Wireless Devices for Quantifying Vocal Fatigue and Providing User Feedback, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(9), 2023 [IF: 12.78, JCI rank : 10/135]

-     Skin-integrated systems for power efficient, programmable thermal sensations across large body areas, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(6), 2023 [IF: 12.78, JCI rank : 10/135]

-     Industrial grade, bending-insensitive, transparent nano-force touch sensor via enhanced percolation effect in hierarchical-nano-composite film, Advanced Functional Materials, 1804721, 2018 [IF: 19.92, JCI rank : 13/414]

-     Chemo-Mechanically Operating Palladium-Polymer Nanograting Film for a Self-Powered H2 Gas Sensor, ACS Nano. 1907082, 2020  
[IF:18.03, JCI rank : 16/414]