He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Hanyang University in 1996, 1998, and 2001, respectively. From 2001 to 2003, he held a fellowship at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), and he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Waseda University as a visiting scholar. From 2004 to 2012, he worked at the Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI). He is currently a chief researcher, Principal Researcher, and technical leader at the Electric Motor Research Center, KERI.