Yeon Jae Ko, Ph.D.

Prior to his career in law, Yeon Jae served as an IP and licensing analyst at Boston University’s Office of Technology Development, analyzing numerous technologies and developing licensing opportunities based on intellectual property in biotech, nanotech, and electronic industries. After completing a doctorate degree in chemistry at Johns Hopkins University, he pursued a postdoctoral fellowship with the Rowland Institute at Harvard University, where he extensively researched technologies involving microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), microfluidics, lab-on-a-chip, medical devices, nanotechnology, semiconductor fabrication, and solar energy conversion.

Yeon Jae is an author of 34 peer-reviewed scientific articles published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), Angewandte Chemie, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. (PNAS), and Journal of Chemical Physics. He served in the Republic of Korea Navy as a commissioned officer.