YongKeun Park

YongKeun (Paul) Park is a Professor in the Department of Physics at KAIST and serves as the Director of the Virtual 3D Biology Center. He is also the co-founder of Tomocube and TheWaveTalk. Park received his PhD in medical engineering and medical physics from the Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. He is widely recognized for pioneering holotomography, a 3D quantitative phase imaging technology, and for advancing its integration with artificial intelligence for applications in biology, medicine, and materials science.

His research has resulted in over 230 peer-reviewed publications, including works in Nature Photonics, Nature Methods, Nature Cell Biology, and Nature Materials, accumulating more than 20,000 citations with an h-index of 80. He has delivered more than 100 invited lectures worldwide, including plenary talks at Photonics West and the European Conferences on Biomedical Optics.

A Fellow of Optica and SPIE, Park has received numerous honors, including the Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award, Asan Medical Award, the Medal of Honor in Science and Technology from the President of the Republic of Korea, and the Microscopy Today Innovation Award.