Prof. Wan Sik Hwang is an associate professor at the Department of Materials Engineering at Korea Aerospace University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 2007. Before joining KAU in fall 2013, he worked as a senior engineer at Samsung Electronics in South Korea from 2007 to 2013. During this period, he also conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Notre Dame and IBM T. J. Watson Research Center from 2010 to 2013. He returned to Notre Dame as a guest associate professor during the 2019–2020 academic year. His current research focuses on materials, processes, integration, and device development involving graphene, 2D materials, and wide bandgap materials, spanning applications from conventional CMOS and memory devices to advanced electronic systems.