Byoung-ick Cho received his Ph.D. in plasma physics from The University of Texas at Austin in 2008, and worked at Advanced Light Source, LBNL, as an ALS postdoc fellow until 2012. He joined the department of physics and photon science, GIST as a faculty member, and became an associate professor in 2018. He is leading the high-energy-density physics group, and his research interests include, but not limited to, warm / hot dense matter, ultraintense laser-matter interactions, ultrafast optical and x-ray spectroscopy, and X-ray free electron laser science.