Education

Aug 2015 - Present

Ph.D. in Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Thesis Advisor: Nigel Goldenfeld


Aug 2011 - Jun 2015
B.S. in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Honors and Awards

Listed in Teachers ranked as excellent, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2021

L.S. Edelheit Family Fellowship in Biological Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall 2020

University Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall 2019

Honorable Mention for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, 2016, 2017

Illinois Distinguished Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015-2018

Paul E. Gray Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Researcher, MIT 2012


Publications

3. S.H. Choi, V.D. Rao, T Gernat, A.R. Hamilton, G.E. Robinson and N. Goldenfeld. "Individual variations lead to universal and cross-species patterns of social behavior," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 117, 31754-31759 (2020) [link]

2. M.A. Tahir, R.C. Van Lehn, S.H. Choi and A. Alexander-Katz, "Solvent-exposed lipid tail protrusions depend on lipid membrane composition and curvature," Biochim. Biophys. Acta Biomembr. 1858, 1207-1215 (2016) [link]

1. A.F. Young, J.D. Sanchez-Yamagishi, B. Hunt, S.H. Choi, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, R.C. Ashoori and P. Jarillo-Herrero, "Tunable symmetry breaking and helical edge transport in a graphene quantum spin Hall state," Nature 505, 528-532 (2014) [link]


Presentations

Invited talk at Online Seminar, Biological Research Information Center, Korea, 2021
Contributed talk at the American Physical Society March Meeting, 2021
Invited talk at Complex Systems Seminar, Queen Mary University of London, 2020
Contributed talk at the American Physical Society March Meeting, 2020
Poster presentation at Institute for Genomic Biology Theme review, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019
Poster presentation at Boulder Summer School  2019: Theoretical Biophysics, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2019

Poster presentation at Summer School on Soft Solids and Complex Fluids, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2018

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant

  Discussion for Physics 325 (Classical Mechanics I), UIUC, Spring 2023

  Discussion for Physics 326 (Classical Mechanics II), UIUC, Spring 2021 (Listed in Teachers ranked as excellent)

  Discussion for Physics 326 (Classical Mechanics II), UIUC, Spring 2021

  Discussion for Physics 435 (Electromagnetic Fields I), UIUC, Spring 2020

  Lab for Physics 214/213 (Quantum Physics/Thermal Physics, UIUC, Fall 2018 - Spring 2019

Grader

  8.044 (Statistical Physics I), MIT, Spring 2015