Caltech MC 452-48, Pasadena, California 91125, USA • 1-626-228-8664 • splendid@caltech.edu
http://theory.caltech.edu/~chan/ • http://www.linkedin.com/pub/chan-youn-park/63/13b/51a/
Park, Chan Youn
Objective
A full-time position that utilizes scientific and mathematical analysis to meet contemporary challenges.
Education
Oct. 2007 ~ Nov. 2013
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA, USA
Ph.D. in Physics
 Adviser: John H. Schwarz
 Research Topic: theoretical high-energy physics, especially supersymmetric gauge theories and string
theory.
• Developed Mathematica programs for two projects of theoretical physics.
Mar. 2001 ~ Aug. 2007
Seoul National University
Seoul, Korea
B.S. in Physics, Minor in Mathematics
 Summa cum laude & ranked 1st in the department.
Employment History
Oct. 2004 ~ Dec. 2005
PSIA Corp. (Now Park Systems Corp.)
Gyeonggi-do, Korea
Staff @ R&D Center
 System programmer for commercial atomic force microscopes (AFMs)
 Development of a prototype force constant calibration module of AFM cantilevers
• Studied thermal fluctuation calibration method using National Instruments high-speed DAQ
• Collaborated with National Physical Laboratory, UK on standard spring calibration method with
micro-fabricated array of reference springs
 Development of an embedded operating system for an AFM electronic controller system
• Customized the kernel and the device drivers of NetBSD, a branch of BSD Unix with high
portability
• Developed for the electronic system equipped with Motorola PowerPC CPU and Texas Instrument
DSP for high-speed feedback & high-throughput system
Oct. 2003 ~ Oct. 2004
Softwise Inc.
Seoul, Korea
Staff @ R&D Division
 Web & server programmer
 Development of a web search engine query recommendation system
• Used the query recommendation algorithm of Baeza-Yates et al., which utilizes query logs
• Applied to NATE.com, one of the 3 largest commercial web portals in Korea
 Technical document writing
• Produced several English administration guide on the mobile web page search engine developed
for Hewlett-Packard (HP), collaborated with and supervised by HP Korea
 Development of the administrator interface of Yahoo! Korea database search system
 Development and maintenance of Yahoo! Korea web search engines
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Park, Chan Youn
List of Publications
 C. Y. Park, 2d SCFT from M-branes and its spectral network, submitted to the proceedings of
String-Math 2013, Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics
 K. Maruyoshi, C.Y. Park, W. Yan, BPS spectrum of Argyres-Douglas theory via spectral network,
accepted to JHEP [arXiv:1309.3050]
 K. Hori, C. Y. Park, Y. Tachikawa, 2d SCFTs from M2-branes, JHEP 11(2013)147
[arXiv:1309.3036]
 C. Y. Park, Ramification Points of Seiberg-Witten Curves, JHEP 07 (2011) 068 [arXiv:1102.0288]
List of Academic Talks
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Sep. 10, 2013, BPS spectrum of Argyres-Douglas theory via spectral network, Kavli IPMU, Japan
Sep. 05, 2013, 2d SCFT from M2-branes, KIAS, Korea
Sep. 02, 2013, BPS spectrum of SCFT via spectral network, KIAS, Korea
Jun. 19, 2013, 2d SCFT from M2-branes, String-Math Conference 2013, Simons Center for
Geometry and Physics, US
May. 23, 2013, Spectral network and BPS spectrum of SCFT, N=2 JAAZ II Workshop, McGill,
Canada
Jun. 20, 2012, Ramification Points of Seiberg-Witten Curves, N=2 JAAZ Workshop, McGill,
Canada
Mar. 13, 2012, Ramification Points of Seiberg-Witten Curves, IPMU, Japan
Aug. 22, 2011, Origami of a Gaiotto Curve from a Seiberg-Witten Curve, McGill, Canada
Jul. 11, 2011, Ramification Points of Seiberg-Witten Curves, KIAS, Korea
Academic Service
 Reviewer, Mathematical Reviews (AMS); 2012 ~ present
Scholarships and Awards
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Samsung Scholarship (2007 ~ 2012)
Superior Academic Performance Scholarship, Seoul National University (2001~2007)
GE Scholarship, General Electric Foundation (2003 ~ 2007)
Scholarship for Distinguished Undergraduates, Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies (2002 ~
2007)
 Silver Medal in the 31st International Physics Olympiad (2000)
Skills from Professional Experiences
 Operating Systems
• Linux & Unix (NetBSD) kernel & device driver programming
• Linux web/database server administration/application development
• Windows server service application development
 Programming Languages
• C, C++, PHP, Python
 Database
• MySQL, MS-SQL
 National Instruments Labview & Measurement Studio
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