Dr Cho Young-Wook

Director, Quantum Sensing
A*STAR Quantum Innovation Centre (Q.InC)

Dr Cho Young-Wook joined A*STAR in 2023 and currently serves as Director of the A*STAR Quantum Innovation Centre (Q.InC), where he leads the Quantum Sensing Pillar. He is an experimental physicist specialising in quantum optics and quantum information. His research interests span a wide range of topics in quantum science and technology, including solid-state quantum memories and the generation, manipulation, and measurement of optical quantum states such as entangled photons, squeezed light, and their hybrid states.
 
Dr Cho earned his B.S. and PhD degrees in Physics from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in Korea in 2007 and 2014, respectively. His PhD studies were supported by National Junior Research Fellowship programme of the National Research Foundation of Korea. In 2014, he joined the Australian National University (ANU) as a postdoctoral research fellow. In 2016, he returned to Korea to continue his career at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), where he received multiple honours, including 100 Excellent Research Awards in the National R&D programme, Excellent Research Team Award at KIST, KIST Researcher of the Year, Optical Society of Korea (OSK) Rising Stars 30, and the President’s Award from the Korea National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST).