I’m One.
The number one, and in Korean, “circle.”
It’s been my nickname forever.
A round person: open, friendly, easygoing.
Call it over-perfection: “it works” has never been where I stop. And it goes past the engineering: research I want other people to build on, a science fair I rebuilt around international collaboration instead of competition.
IAU constellations. Constellation88 names one from a hand-drawn shape, in under one second
International students I led as team leader at KSASF 2025
One, my name and the number. Whatever field I'm in, I want to be number one in it.
selected works
Iodine Capture
A high-entropy ceramic that adsorbs radioactive iodine from nuclear-fission byproducts, built at KAIST as one of three high-school researchers.
Regeneron ISEF Finalist for Korea, KSEF Gold, and the Ricoh Sustainability Award
T Coronae Borealis
A year-long photometric study of a recurrent nova due to erupt, analyzing archival light curves and building the software to read them.
Graduation research; photometry tool released on GitHub, still waiting on the eruption
Constellation88
Draw a star pattern and it names the constellation. A shape-matching engine over all 88 IAU constellations, on web and iOS.
To match a hand-drawn shape against all 88 constellations
KSASF 2025
A science competition I led as team leader and MC, reconstructing a black hole from diffraction patterns, on a web platform our team built, modeled on the Event Horizon Telescope.
International students across 18 teams, one morning as the EHT collaboration
