Euiheon Chung / 정의헌

Research Field

Dr. Euiheon Chung is a professor in the Department of Biomedical Science and Engineering at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) and the director of the Gliopathic Pain Research Center (GPRC). His research aims to create translational neurophotonic technologies to satisfy unmet clinical needs based on biomedical engineering approaches. With functional optical imaging and neuromodulation, his current research focuses on neurovascular diseases and neuropathic pain.

Education

• Post-doc (Mar. 2007 – Jan. 2011), Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) & Harvard Medical School, Edwin L. Steele Laboratory for Tumor Biology
  Mentors: Rakesh K. Jain, PhD & Dai Fukumura, MD PhD
• PhD (Sep. 2001 – Feb. 2007), Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Medical Engineering/Medical Physics (MEMP)
  Advisor: Peter T. C. So, PhD
• MS (Feb. 1998), Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), Aerospace Engineering
• BS (Feb. 1996), KAIST, Aerospace Engineering (Minor in Physics), Summa Cum Laude

Work Experience

• Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)
  Department of Biomedical Science and Engineering (BMSE) & School of Mechanical Engineering
  Biomedical in vivo Opto-scopy Laboratory (BiO-scopy lab)
  Affiliation: BMSE; Adjunct Faculty, AI Graduate School, GIST
• Visiting Professor, Chonnam National University Hospital (since Nov. 2016)
• Nanopoint Inc. (Apr. 2007 – Apr. 2009), Honolulu, HI — Technical Consultant
  Advised development of high-resolution imaging systems; contributed to standing-wave TIR microscope development.
• Cambridge Devices (Jun. 2006 – Mar. 2007), Cambridge, MA — Intern Engineer & Technical Consultant
  Built/characterized polarization-based imaging devices for skin cancer margin detection; performed preclinical experiments.
• Daewoo Heavy Industry (Winter 1994), Changwon, Korea — Intern
  Aerospace Division, Remotely Piloted Vehicle group