Jong Wook Hong's Biography

Jong Wook Hong, Professor of Bionano Technology and Bionano Engineering, Hanyang University

Jong Wook Hong is currently a professor of Bionano Technology and Bionano Engineering, Hanyang University, Korea. Hong has published research articles in various scientific journals including Science and Nature Biotechnology and holds more than ten US patents granted or pending. Hong’s research interests cover convergence microsystems for biotechnology, pharmaceutical sciences and future medicine. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from The University of Tokyo as a Japanese Government Fellow. During and after his doctorate research, he worked at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Japan, and at the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), The University of Tokyo. Before joining Auburn University where he was granted tenure, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the T.J. Watson, Sr. Laboratories of Applied Physics of The California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Pasadena, USA. He also served as a visiting professor of pharmacy at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.