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Education

• February 1987, B.S. in Electronics Engineering at Seoul National University
• October 19, 1994 M.A. and M.Ph. at Columbia University
• October 18,1995 Ph.D. at Columbia University
• Thesis Advisor : Professor Norman H. Christ, Columbia University

Career

• Sep. 1989 - Jun. 1991
  Graduate Research & Teaching Assistant, Applied Physics, Princeton University
• Jun. 1991 - Jul. 1995
  Graduate Research & Teaching Assistant, Physics Department, Columbia University
• Jul. 1995 - Sep. 1997
  Postdoctor, Theory Group in Physics Division, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
• Sep. 1997 - Oct. 2000
  Postdoctor, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Oct. 2000 - Jul. 2002
  Staff Member, Theoretical Division and Computational Division,
  Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Dec. 2001 - Mar. 2006
  Assistant Professor, School of Physics, Seoul National University
• Apr. 2006 - Mar. 2016
  Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University
• Apr. 2016 - Present
  Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University

Honors

• Fellowship: Princeton University (1989-1991)
• Fellowship: Columbia University (1991-1995)
• Gruman Graduate Prize: Princeton University (1990)
• Matilda Woodard Fellowship: Columbia University (1992)
• Outstanding Young Scientist Award: AKPA, APS (1996)

Research Interest

• Lattice Gauge Theory(QCD)
• Chiral Perturbation Theory
• Standard Model Phenomenology
• CP Violation
• Finite Temperature QCD
• Perturbative QCD
• SUSY Yang-Mills Theory
• Renormalization Groups Scaling Study
• Computational Physics

Recent Publications

1. Chiral symmetry and taste symmetry from the eigenvalue spectrum of staggered Dirac operators
   Hwancheol Jeong, Chulwoo Jung, Seungyeob Jwa, Jangho Kim, Jeehun Kim, Nam Soo Kim, Sunghee Kim, Sunkyu Lee, Weonjong Lee, Youngjo Lee, Jeonghwan Pak (SWME Collaboration)
   Phys. Rev. D 104, 014508 [2021.07.26] arXiv:2005.10596 [hep-lat].
2. Semileptonic B -> D^(*)lν Decay Form Factors using the Oktay-Kronfeld action
   Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Benjamin J. Choi, Rajan Gupta, Yong-Chull Jang, Seungyeob Jwa, Sunkyu Lee, Weonjong Lee, Jaehoon Leem, Sungwoo Park, (LANL-SWME Collaboration)
   PoS LATTICE 2019 (2019) 056, arXiv:2003.09206 [hep-lat].
3. Leptonic decays of B_(s) and D_(s) using the OK action
   Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Benjamin J. Choi, Rajan Gupta, Yong-Chull Jang, Seungyeob Jwa, Sunkyu Lee, Weonjong Lee, Jaehoon Leem, Sungwoo Park, (LANL-SWME Collaboration)
   PoS LATTICE 2019 (2019) 050, arXiv:2002.04755 [hep-lat].
4. Chiral Ward identities for Dirac eigenmodes with staggered fermions
   Hwancheol Jeong, Chulwoo Jung, Sunghee Kim, Weonjong Lee, Jeonghwan Pak (SWME Collaboration)
   PoS LATTICE 2019 (2019) 031, arXiv:2001.06568 [hep-lat].
5. Improvement of heavy-heavy and heavy-light currents with the Oktay-Kronfeld action
   Jon A. Bailey, Yong-Chull Jang, Sunkyu Lee, Weonjong Lee, Jaehoon Leem
   arXiv:2001.05590 [hep-lat].

Full List

Invited Talks

1. "Current Status of ε_K and |V_cb| in lattice QCD",
   a seminar by Weonjong Lee on November 30 (2017),
   KAIST, Daejeon
   invited by Prof. Hye-Sung Lee.
   
2. "Current Status of ε_K with lattice QCD inputs",
   a plenary talk by Weonjong Lee on November 1 (2017),
   Korea e-Science Forum, KSC 2017, The-K Hotel, Seoul
   invited by KISTI.
   
3. "Update on ε_K with lattice QCD inputs",
   a plenary talk by Weonjong Lee on August 29 (2017),
   2017 Santa Fe Workshop, Santa Fe, USA
   invited by Prof. Rajan Gupta.
4. " Calculation of B ->D^(*)lν semileptonic form factor",
   a plenary talk by Weonjong Lee on August 16 (2017),
   Korea Belle2 Meeting, Sachun, South Korea
   invited by Prof. Youngjoon Kwon.
5. "Current Status of ε_K in lattice QCD",
   a plenary talk by Weonjong Lee on February 3 (2017),
   2017 SNU-UW Joint Workshop, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
   invited by Prof. Stephen Sharpe.
   

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