I received my Ph.D. degrees from Catholic University in Korea. I worked in UC Irvine as a postdoctoral researcher from May 2004 to August 2008, then had the opportunity to be promoted to the scientist level at the University of Texas' Southwestern Medical Center. I worked at the Korea Basic Sciences Institute as a researcher from March 2012 to Febuary 2017. Since 2017, I have worked at the Lee Gil Ya Cancer and Diabetes Institute, Gachon University, as a professor. My research interests are focused on technical MR imaging and MR spectroscopy developments for both clinical and research purposes. I have been working on brain neurosciences and cancer research since 2004. I have published 100 peer-reviewed journal papers related to MRI and MRS. These papers are published in very prestigious imaging or oncology journals, such as Radiology, JMRI, and MRI.