Byungha Shin

Associate Professor

Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Byungha Shin is Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), Associate Vice President of Office of Student Life, and Director of Global Leadership Center at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, Korea. Prof. Shin received B.S. in MSE from Seoul National University in 2000, M.S. in MSE from the University of Michigan in July 2002, and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University in 2007. From May 2007 to March 2010, he was a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of MSE at Stanford University. From May 2010 until he joined KAIST in Feb 2014, he worked at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center as a post-doctoral researcher and a Research Staff Member. He also spent seven months from Aug 2018 to Feb 2019 as a visiting Professor at Columbia University.

His past research experience includes study of thin film growth kinetics and high-k dielectric materials for microelectronic applications. His current primary research interest is developing novel materials for energy applications with the current emphasis on hybrid perovskite optoelectronic devices (PV, LED and radiation-detector), chalcogenide thin film solar cells, and photoelectrochemical water splitting and electrochemical nitrogen reduction.

He has published over 100 SCI journal papers including Science (2020) and Nature (2019), and he has given over 100 invited talks at various academic institutes and international conferences. He was a recipient of “Scientist of the Month” and “100 Outstanding Research Achievements”, both by Ministry of Science and ICT of Korean Government in 2021, “The 2020 KASTian of the Year Award” by KAIST in 2020, and “KAIST’s Top 10 Research Achievements of 2019” by KAIST in 2019.