- Marine natural products
- Biomedical Engineering
- Marine-integrated Biohealthcare technology

2006.07 ~ 2007.08 Post-Doc. Fellow. USA NOAA Sea Grant Center, Louisiana State University
2008.04 ~ 2013.08 Full-time instructor~Assistant professor, Department of Marine Life Science, College of Natural Sciences & Marine Bio Research & Education Center, Chosun University
2013.09 ~ Present Associate professor~Professor, Major of Biomedical Engineering, Division of Smart Healthcare, College of Information Technology, Pukyong National University
2015.03 ~ 2019.12 Pivotal PI, Marine-Integrated Bionics Center, Pukyong National University
2017.05 ~ 2019.03 Director, PKNU Fisheries Processing Research Center, Pukyong National University
2018.01 ~ 2019.12 Project Mentor, Next generation Biomedical Device 100 Project of KFDA
2018.11 ~ 2020.10 Review board, The National Research Foundation of Korea
2020.09 ~ 2022.03 Director/PI, Innovation Center for Engineering Education of Pukyong National University, Pukyong National University
2020.08 ~ 2022.08 Department Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Pukyong National University
2021.06 ~ 2030.12 Director/PI, Research Center for Marine-integrated Biomedical Technology, The National Key Research Institutes in Universities, National Research Foundation

2021 Busan Metropolitan Major’s Citation Award for Marine Industry, Busan Metropolitan City
2018 Grand Award for Marine Science & Technology, Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries
2010 Award for Top Cited Article on Life Sciences, Elservier