Who fits here
Everyone here reads widely and thinks things through, then builds what they propose, tests it against the analysis, and reports what came out, including the parts that did not work. Each member below states, in their own words, what they are aiming at.
Head of the lab
Yongsoon Park 박용순
Associate Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
“Find what only I can do.”
Education
Experience
Research interests
Design and control of power conversion circuits for grid connection and motor drive — grid-forming inverters, sensorless drives, and MW-class conversion, carried out largely with industry.
yongsoon@gist.ac.kr · Room 314, Renewable Energy Research Building
- Doctoral students
- 5
- Master’s students
- 2
- Doctorates awarded
- 3
- Master’s degrees awarded
- 13
Doctoral students
Seungbo Choi
최승보
Ph.D. student
“I can be a superflex.”
- B.S. 2020Electrical Engineering, Chungnam National University
- Before GISTPEMCL, Chungnam National University, 2018–2020
Jaehyun Park
박재현
Ph.D. student
“Tolerance and diversity.”
- B.S. 2021Energy System Engineering, Chung-Ang University
- M.S. 2023Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
Juho Kim
김주호
Ph.D. student
“No one has ever done it before. I am the only one doing it. It might be something that only I can do.”
- B.S. 2022Materials Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
- Before GISTIntern at OPTIMUS Lab, GIST, 2020–2022
Seung Yun Chu
추성윤
Ph.D. student
“Living a meaningful life is to act meaningfully.”
- B.S. 2022Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
Heeyeon Choi
최희연
Ph.D. student
“To infinity and beyond.”
- B.S. 2024Mechanical Engineering, Korea Aerospace University
- Before GISTIAAV Lab, Korea Aerospace University, 2021–2024
Master’s students
Minkyun Kim
김민균
M.S. student
“Effort does not guarantee success, but laziness guarantees failure.”
- B.S.Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Dongguk University
Yuntae Kim
김윤태
M.S. student
“Be yourself.”
- B.S. 2026Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
Alumni
Since October 2016 the lab has been sending graduates into industry and research. They have gone on to Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Motor, LS Electric, Doosan Enerbility, the Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI), and the Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI), among others.
Power electronics is needed wherever something runs on electricity, so demand for people trained in it stays steady. The path from here can lead to power, automotive, marine, aerospace, home appliances, electric machines, or power semiconductors, whether at private companies, public energy utilities, or national research institutes such as KERI and the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER).
Thesis titles are listed under Publications.