Hyungsub Choi is an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Seoul National University. He is also a research fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, where he managed the emerging technologies program at the Center for Contemporary History and Policy. His training is in the history of science and technology, with specialties in recent developments in the fields of semiconductors, materials science, and nanotechnology. He has received degrees from Seoul National University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Johns Hopkins University. He was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tokyo, Japan.
Choi’s works have appeared in leading professional journals, such as Technology and Culture and Social Studies of Science.Currently, he is preparing a book examining the history of the semiconductor industry in the United States and Japan. He also directs the Robert W. Gore Materials Innovation project.