简介：

       Andy Yun 于1997年在韩国科学技术院获得物理学学士学位。1996年，他成为志奋领学者，并且成为英国南安普顿大学光电子研究中心的访问研究生。他在光纤领域的研究创办了位于加利福尼亚州圣何塞的一家价值6800万美元的创业公司Novera Optics, Inc。 1999年至2003年，他曾在该公司工作，担任创始成员和工程主管。该公司后来被LG-Nortel收购。2003年，他转到生物医学领域，并加入马萨诸塞州综合医院和哈佛医学院的Wellman光学医学中心担任讲师。他现在是哈佛大学（哈佛医学院，皮肤病学）教授、马萨诸塞州综合医院2016年MGH研究学者、麻省理工学院哈佛大学麻省理工学院健康科学与技术系的附属教师、哈佛大学麻省理工学院夏季生物医学光学研究所所长。他是2016年NIH先锋奖的获得者。

Introduction:

       Dr. Yun received his Ph.D. degree in physics from KAIST, Korea, in 1997. He was a Chevening Scholar in 1996 and a visiting graduate student in Optoelectronics Research Centre at University of Southampton, UK. His thesis research in fiber optics has led to a $68M-funded startup, Novera Optics, Inc., in San Jose, CA. In 1999-2003, he worked for this company, which was later acquired by LG-Nortel, as a founding member and engineering manager. In 2003, he moved to the biomedical sector and joined the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School as Instructor. He is now Professor at Harvard University (Harvard Medical School, Dermatology), Class of 2016 MGH Research Scholar at Massachusetts General Hospital, and an affiliated faculty member of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology at MIT.  He serves as the Director of the Harvard-MIT Summer Institute for Biomedical Optics. He is a recipient of NIH Director’s Pioneer Award in 2016.