Underwood International College

Assistant Professor of Physics, Integrated Science and Engineering Division

Profile

2019-2021. Lecturer, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.
2016-2019. Research Assistant Professor, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.
2010-2015. Senior Research Associate, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.
2007-2010. Research Associate, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, USA.

Education

2007. Ph.D. in Physics, Washington University in St. Louis. 
2001. B.S. in Physics, summa cum laude, with honors of Pierre Laclede Honors College, University of Missouri—St. Louis.

Courses and Current Research Areas

Courses

- Calculus and Vector Analysis 1 and 2
- General Physics and Laboratory 1 and 2
- Mathematical Methods 1 and 2
- Classical Mechanics
- Quantum Mechanics
- Fundamentals of Quantum Physics
- Electromagnetic Theory

Research
(1) Quark flavor and CP violation
(2) Lattice gauge theory
(3) Quantum Chromodynamics

Selected Publications

1. [LANL and SWME Collaborations], "Improvement of heavy-heavy and heavy-light currents with the Oktay-Kronfeld action," Phys.Rev. D105:034509, 2022. e-print arXiv:2001.05590 [hep-lat].

2. [SWME Collaboration], “Updated evaluation of epsilon-K in the standard model with lattice QCD

inputs,” Phys. Rev. D98:094505, 2018. e-print arXiv:1808.09657 [hep-lat].

3. [SWME Collaboration], “Masses and decay constants of pions and kaons in mixed-action staggered
chiral perturbation theory,” Phys. Rev. D96:034522, 2017. e-print arXiv:1504.02573 [hep-lat].

4. [Fermilab Lattice and MILC Collaborations], “B to K ell-plus ell-minus decay form factors
from three-flavor lattice QCD,” Phys. Rev. D93:025026, 2016. e-print arXiv:1509.06235 [hep-lat].