Sang-Hoon Bae

Dr. Sang-Hoon Bae is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science at Washington University in St. Louis, where he joined the faculty in 2021. He leads the Bae Research Group, which develops scalable manufacturing technologies for next-generation semiconductor chips. His research addresses challenges in wafer-scale fabrication, low-temperature processing, thin-film transfer, and heterogeneous 3D integration, enabling advanced electronic, memory, and photonic devices. Dr. Bae received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2017. Before joining Washington University, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2017–2021). His research has been recognized through many of early career awards such as NSF CAREER Award (2026), AFOSR DEPSCoR Award (2025), Advanced Materials Rising Star (2025), Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year recognit