I’m a fourth-year physics undergraduate at KAIST, working at the intersection of quantum information and many-body physics.

My primary research is in neutral-atom quantum computing. I work in Prof. Jaewook Ahn’s Quantum Computing Lab at KAIST, studying how analog Rydberg-atom platforms can be used for combinatorial optimization — from embedding QUBO problems onto atom arrays to characterizing how time-to-solution scales with approximation quality. I have also worked on deterministic error mitigation for defective MIS data from real hardware experiments.

Beyond optimization, I spent six months at NTU Singapore in Prof. Nelly Ng’s group (The inQlings), exploring resource-theoretic questions in quantum thermodynamics — specifically the gap between Thermal Operations and Gibbs-preserving covariant channels. I have also studied entanglement area law corrections and their effect on extracting the chiral central charge in (2+1)D topological phases.

I am broadly interested in near-term quantum algorithms, analog quantum simulation, and quantum many-body theory.