Jung-Hoon Chun

Jung-Hoon Chun serves as the Director of the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where he has been a faculty member since 1989. After earning his B.S. from Seoul National University, M.A.Sc. from the University of Ottawa, and Ph.D. from MIT, all in mechanical engineering, he has established himself as a leading figure in innovative manufacturing processes. His research portfolio spans droplet-based manufacturing, microelectronics manufacturing, chemical-mechanical polishing, and polymer-based microfluidic devices manufacturing, with over 100 publications and patents to his credit. One of his most significant contributions is the uniform-droplet spray process, which has been commercialized worldwide for producing solder spheres in electronics packaging. As Director of the MISTI Korea Program and a Faculty Fellow of the Singapore-MIT Alliance, he has fostered numerous international collaborations and industry-MIT consortia. His expertise has been sought by major corporations including Hyundai Motor America, Samsung Electronics, Johnson & Johnson, and CIBA Vision Corporation, while also contributing to non-profit and governmental organizations. His work in chemical-mechanical polishing has been particularly influential, leading to breakthrough developments in semiconductor manufacturing processes, as evidenced by his recent paper on defect-free CMP operations for higher yield in semiconductor fabrication.