KUBOL

Beop-Min Kim

• TEL : 02-940-2883
• FAX : 02-941-2883
• E-mail : bmk515@korea.ac.kr

Education

Ph.D., Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 9/1/1991 – 12/21/1996

Bioengineering
Thesis : Theoretical and experimental analysis of laser interaction with prostatic tissue

M.S., Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 8/25/1989 – 8/16/1991

Bioengineering
Thesis : An analysis of the effect of coupling between temperature rise and light distribution in laser irradiated tissue using finite element and Monte-Carlo methods

B.S., Korea University, Seoul, Korea, 3/1/1985 – 2/25/1989

Mechanical Engineering

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Employment & Activities

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Research Interests

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)

• OCT in Ophthalmology
• OCT in Dermatology
• Polarization-Sensitive OCT

Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy (NIRS)

• NIRS in Neuroscience
• Cognitive Study
• Brain-Machine Interface

Nonlinear Optical Imaging

• Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) Microscopy
• In Vivo Two Photon Microscopy

Intraoperative Optical Imaging System

• Molecular Imaging
• Endoscopic Imaging

Optical Tweezers

• Quantification of Dielectrophoresis (DEP) Forces
• DEP forces on Biological Cells

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Academic Memberships

• Member, SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering
• Member, Optical Society of America
• Fellow, Optical Society of Korea (한국광학회).
• Fellow, The Korean Society of Medical Biological Engineering (대한의용생체공학회)
• Member, Korean Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (대한의학레이저학회)

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Academic Activities

• Associate Editor, Neurophotonics, SPIE (2014 – present)
• Editor, Optics and Technologies, Optical Society of Korea (2011 – present)
• Editor, Current Optics and Photonics, Optical Society of Korea (2011 – present)
• Guest Editor, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (2009 – 2014)
• Program Committee, CLEO (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics), May 13 – 18, 2018, San Jose, CA
• Board Member, Korean Society of Medical Biological Engineering (2004 – present)
• Chairperson, Biophotonics Division, Optical Society of Korea (2008 – 2010)
• Advisory committee, International Conference on Nano-Bio Sensing, Imaging, and Spectroscopy, SPIE (2016 – present)
• Program committee, Neurophotonics, Optical Interactions with Tissue and Cells, Photonics West, SPIE (2014 – present)
• Chair,Annual Biophotonics Conference (ABC), Nov. 4 – 5, 2016, KAIST, Korea
• Chair, International Biomedical Engineering Conference, Nov. 11 – 12, 2016, Seoul, Korea
• Chair, 4th Asian and Pacific Rim Symposium on Biophotonics (APBP 2009), May 27 – 29, 2009, Jeju, Korea
• Chair, Biomedical Optics Track, CLEO-PR 2007, Aug. 2007, Seoul, Korea
• Chair, Biomedical Optics Track, World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2006, Aug. 2006, Seoul, Korea
• Organizing Committee, Asian and Pacific Rim Symposium on Biophotonics, July. 2007, Cairns, Australia
• Organizing Committee, IQEC/CLEO-PR 2005, July 2005, Tokyo, Japan
• Chair, The 6th Workshop on Vision and Medical Optics, May 19 - 20, 2005, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejun, Korea
• Organizing Committee, Asian and Pacific Rim Symposium on Biophotonics, Dec. 2004, Taipei, Taiwan
• Chair, The 5th Workshop on Vision and Medical Optics, April 30, 2004, Sangrok Hotel, Choongjoo, Korea
• Chair, The 4th Workshop on Vision and Medical Optics, May 30, 2003, Yonsei University, Wonju, Korea
• Organizing Committee, Biophotonics Korea 2002, Sep. 28, 2002, Chungnam University, Korea
• Organizing Committee, The 13th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, June 2000, Houston, TX