Jiyeon Choi received her Ph. D. in optics from the College of Optics, CREOL/FPCE in the University of Central Florida, USA in 2009 and the joint Ph. D (Co-Tutelle) in laser physics from the University of Bordeaux, France in 2010. She is currently the head of the department of laser and electron beam technologies in Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) in Daejeon, Korea. Her research interests include ultrashort pulsed laser-matter interaction with novel optical materials for displays, photonics and biomedical applications. She is a member of SPIE, the optical society (OSA), the optical society of Korea (OSK), the Korean society of mechanical engineers (KSME), and the Korean society of laser processing (KSLP). She is an associate member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea since 2022.