Sukhyeon Ka

Ph.D. Candidate · School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Yonsei University

Research interests

Super-resolution microscopy

  • structured illumination
  • axial imaging
  • biomedical microscopy

Plasmonic / nanospeckle structured illumination

  • nanospeckle
  • nanoislands
  • near-field imaging

Optical & electromagnetic simulation

  • FEM
  • FDTD
  • RCWA
  • metastructures

Computational imaging

  • image processing
  • localization
  • Python
  • MATLAB

Education

Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Yonsei University · School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Thesis advisor: Prof. Donghyun Kim

B.S., Physics

Yonsei University · Department of Physics

Leadership / academic experience

President

SPIE Student Chapter, Yonsei University

President

Optica Student Chapter, Yonsei University

Publications

Conference presentations

Speckle-Structured Illumination for Super-Resolution Biomedical Imaging Using Plasmonic Nanoislands

Optics and Photonics Congress 2026 · Jeju, Korea

Oral presentation

High-Resolution Biomedical Imaging with Structured Illumination by Random Plasmonic Nanostructures

31st Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference · Busan, Korea

Oral presentation

Three-dimensional near-isotropic super-resolution imaging via axial interference speckle illumination

SPIE Photonics West 2026 · San Francisco, California, USA

Conference presentation

Speckle-Assisted Super-Resolution Microscopy for Enhanced Axial Imaging

ICEIC 2026 · Macau

Invited presentation

High Resolution Live Cell Surface Imaging via Random Illumination Based Nanospeckle Microscopy

SPIE Advanced Biophotonics Conference 2025 · Jeju, Korea

Poster presentation

Plasmonic Near-Field Randomization for Improved Surface Imaging

Focus on Microscopy 2025 · Taipei, Taiwan

Oral presentation

Random Structured Plasmonic Near-Field Illumination for Enhanced Surface Imaging

ICEIC 2025 · Osaka, Japan

Oral presentation

Fabrication of Lattice Nanoislands for Improved Transmission in the Near-Infrared

CLEO Pacific Rim 2024 · Incheon, Korea

Poster presentation

Random Plasmonic Near-field Illumination for Super-resolved Surface Imaging

Optics and Photonics Congress 2024 · Jeju, Korea

Oral presentation

Advanced Biosensing Platform with Lattice Nanoislands in the NIR Window

SPIE Advanced Biophotonics Conference 2023 · Jeju, Korea

Poster presentation

Patents

Optical Device using Dielectrophoresis

Kwan Hwi Ko, Hajun Yoo, Inseop Byeon, Sukhyeon Ka, Donghyun Kim

Korea · 10-2025-0062308

Optofluidic Biochip for Controlling Fluid based on Optics and Methods of Manufacturing and Fluid Control Thereof

Hajun Yoo, Hongki Lee, Gwang Myeong Seo, Inseop Byeon, Sukhyeon Ka, Kwan Hwi Ko, Sungmin Im, Gwiyeong Moon, Hyunwoong Lee, Jong Hwan Sung, Donghyun Kim

Korea / PCT · 10-2022-0089660; PCT/KR2022/010934

Teaching

Certification

Secondary School Teacher, Grade II, Physics

Advanced Biomedical Optics

Teaching assistant

Biomedical Engineering Experiments

Teaching assistant

Physical Electronics

Teaching assistant

Electromagnetic Wave Theory I

Teaching assistant

Electronics Laboratory I

Teaching assistant

Honors and scholarships

Samsung Display Industry-Academy Scholarship

Yonsei “Honers” Scholarship

National Science and Technology Scholarship

Yonsei University Academic Achievement Award

Academy Research Fellowship

Technical skills

Simulation

  • FEM
  • FDTD
  • RCWA
  • Lumerical
  • RSoft / FullWAVE / DiffractMOD
  • MATLAB
  • COMSOL

Fabrication

  • E-beam lithography
  • E-beam evaporation
  • Thermal evaporation
  • Atomic layer deposition

Characterization

  • AFM
  • Nanoscale measurements

Optical systems

  • Optical imaging setup
  • LabVIEW
  • Experimental optical system installation

Programming & data

  • Python
  • MATLAB
  • C
  • ImageJ
  • Image and raw-data processing