Chung Lab @ KU
People

principal investigator (PI)

Aram Chung received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Seoul National University (SNU) in 2006 and earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 2011. Between 2011 and 2013, he conducted postdoctoral studies in Bioengineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He later joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) as an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department, and in 2017, he moved to the School of Biomedical Engineering at Korea University where he now serves as a Professor. His research pioneered the establishment of microfluidic platforms for immunotherapy, genome editing and cell engineering. He has also taken on a leadership role in technology entrepreneurship, founding a company (MxT Biotech) that commercializes intellectual property developed in his lab.

Among his many honors, he was a finalist for the SLAS Innovation Award in 2020 and received the Seok-Top Technology Award from KU in 2022 and 2023. Further accolades include the BioChip Journal Award in 2021, the KOSMBE Young Investigator Award in 2019, and the Early Career Award from the BioChip Society in 2018. He was honored with the KSEA Young Investigator Award in 2017 and the RPI Class of 1951 Outstanding Teaching Award in 2016. Additionally, he received the UCLA Chancellor's Award for Postdoctoral Research in 2013, along with the Grand Prize and the 1st Prize Poster Award at ASME-IMECE in 2010 and 2009, respectively. He also won the Samsung HumanTech Paper Silver Award in 2008.

Contact: ac467 at korea.ac.kr

Graduate students

You Jeong Kim

Ju Hee Lee

Qingluan Liu

Chae-lim An

SungWon Bang

Minjae Kim

Soohyun Jeon

Myungsuk Sung

Dongwhan Seo

Undergraduate students

Research Administrator

Jiyeon Park

Lab Alums

Name
Role
Year
Current Position
Hyelee Kim
M.S.
2020-2023
MxT Biotech
Minjeong Lee
M.S.
2020-2023
MxT Biotech
Hyunjung Lim, PhD
Postdoc
2023-2023
Dodam IP Law firm
Suyeon Kim
M.S.
2021-2023
CMU BME
Chan Kwon
M.S.
2020-2022
DongKook Pharmaceutical
Gi-beom Kim
M.S.
2019-2022
MxT Biotech
Jeongsoo Hur
M.S.
2018-2021
Caltech BE
Byeongju Joo
M.S.
2018-2021
KITECH
Hasung Lee
M.S.
2019-2021
Samsung Biologics
GeoumYoung Kang
M.S.
2018-2020
KIST
Yanxiang Deng
PhD
2014-2018
Asst Prof. at Penn Pathology
Kevin Paulsen
PhD
2013-2017
LLNL
Ekram Karim
Undergraduate
2013-2014
RPI ME
Kristen Young
HS
Summer 2014
MIT ME/NE
Jing Xiao
M.Eng.
2014
QuEST Global
Brendan Jablonski
Undergraduate
2015
Thoratec
Zhenlong Wu
Visiting/Postdoc
2014-2015
Asst Prof. at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Will Chang
Undergraduate
2015
RPI AE
Bum-Joon Jung
Undergraduate/M.Eng
2013-2016
KAIST Nano Sci. & Tech
Mengqian Gao
Undergraduate
2015--2016
AKF Group
Markus Ricardo
Undergraduate
2015--2016
RPI ME Under
Hannah Eckstein
HS
Summer 2016
Harvard ME
Vincent Ahn
Undergraduate
Summer 2016
Purdue EE
Andrea Curie
Undergraduate
2016-2017
KAPL
Frank Charbonier
Undergraduate
2016-2017
Stanford ME
Erin Mahoney
Undergraduate
2017
Cornell BME
Jiaying Yu
Undergraduate
2016-2017
UPenn ME
Jessica Mastropietro
Undergraduate
2016-2017
RPI BME
Bradley Johnson
Undergraduate
2016-2017
Ecovative
Scott Merrullo
Undergraduate
2015-2016
Raytheon
Michael Cintron
Undergraduate
2013--2016
Dynamic Systems Inc
Dana Stevens
Undergraduate
2016-2017
RPI MANE
Jaewoo Lee
Undergraduate
2017-2018
KU BME
Eunsil Yoo
Undergraduate
2018
Duksung Women's Univ Pharmacy
Eun Sung Kim
Undergraduate
2020
KU BME