B.S., Seoul National University, Korea, 1988 (with Prof. Eun Lee)
M.S. Seoul National University, Korea, 1990 (with Prof. Eun Lee)
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1998 (with Prof. Paul A. Wender)
Postdoc, Harvard Univeristy, 1998–2000 (with Prof. Stuart L. Schreiber)
Fellow of the A. P. Sloan Foundation, 2004–2006
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin- Madison, 2000-2007
Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago 2007-2014
Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2014-present
Adjunct Professor, Wenzhou University, 2018-2021