Yong-Su Kim serves as Principal Researcher and Head of the Center for Quantum Technology at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), alongside a professorship at the Korea University of Science and Technology (UST). Dr. Kim earned his B.S. in Physics from Yonsei University, followed by his M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from POSTECH, where he was honored with the school’s best doctoral thesis award. Before taking his current roles, he completed research stints as a guest scientist at the U.S. NIST and a visiting fellow at the Australian National University. His research centers on experimental discrete and continuous-variable quantum optics, quantum communication, quantum networks, and hybrid DV-CV quantum information processing. He has received multiple prestigious recognitions including the Minister’s Commendation from Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT in 2025, outstanding teaching and advisor awards from UST, and has led numerous national and international quantum research projects as principal investigator, with over 90 peer-reviewed publications in top journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and Nature Physics.
