 At the age of 26, Yoon Seok-ho, currently finishing up a post doctorate course at Harvard University has been appointed a full-time lecturer at the Department of Information Communications Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University, becoming Korea's youngest professor. Yoon will begin teaching in the spring semester of 2003. Before Yoon, Song Ik-ho, currently a professor at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) was appointed as the youngest professor in 1988 at the age of 28.
Born on January 7, 1976, Yoon entered elementary school one year earlier than his peers and at the age of six and went on to finish Kyonggi Science High School in two years. Entering KAIST in 1993, Yoon received his doctorate degree last February, finishing his masters and doctorate program in just three years.
During his doctorate course, Yoon published 11 journals on wireless mobile communication signals and achieved an excellent research performance. This year, he went to study abroad at MIT, then later at Harvard under the renowned Professor Vahid
Tarokh, and added four more professional science journals to his list.
"We were worried that he may have difficulties teaching students because of his young
age, but among the eight final applicants, his research performance was by far superior," says Choi Hyoung-jin, director of the department at Sungkyunkwan University.
Currently still in the US, Yoon says that academic depth, not age, is important in teaching students and that he "wants to give good lectures and research with young
students."
(Lee Tae-hoon, libra@chosun.com )
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