Sungjae is a microfluidics researcher, analog circuit designer, software engineer, and the co-founding CEO of ProvaLabs, Inc. He also serves as a research professor at Seoul National University and enjoys working with bright researchers at Energy, Environment and Sustainability Laboratory since 2021. Prior to the foundation of ProvaLabs, he participated as a technology lead at Femtobiomed, Inc., a Korea-based biotech venture where he developed an in-vitro intracellular delivery platform. During his military duties, he intensively worked on industrial integrated circuit design at PixelPlus Co., Ltd. (KOSDAQ listed). He is currently focused on enhancing cost efficiency in drug discovery through techbio entrepreneurship.

He received his PhD and SM from EECS at MIT in 2015 and 2011, respectively. His research comprises malaria-diagnostic lab-on-a-chip devices, graphene-Si hybrid IR image sensor and other 2D-material based electronics. In 2009, he graduated from POSTECH with an honor being the top of the class 2009 and became one of the 40 awardees of Fulbright Science & Technology.

Sungjae is currently a member of International MPS Society, and he is a small fan of classical music, a hobby baseball club member and a hiker who loves jaunting along ridges. Sungjae carries a strong belief in Mens et Manus, MIT's motto meaning "mind and hand", to be a true tool to change world.

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