Jaehoon Yu
University of Texas
Statement
Dr. Jaehoon Yu is a distinguished professor of physics at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) and an elected fellow of American Physical Society. Jaehoon Yu has accomplished a great deal in the fundamental physics research and has been playing many vital roles as a leader in physics and experiments in particle physics worldwide. Over the past three decades, he has amassed ample experience in all aspects of accelerator based experimental particle physics in both high energy colliders and lower energy fixed target experiments. He has recognized new physics opportunities and has been a driving force to promote new areas of physics. He has led R&D, design and prototyping of several advanced detector technologies and led the commissioning of one of the two largest detectors in the world in 2000, as well as design and implementation of the advanced computing grid technology.He also led the construction and commissioning of a particle beamline at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in the U.S. and personally established the beam tune for every particle beam of various species and momenta.
He used the data for extracting important physics from the experiments he personally contributed to the construction. He has contributed to two of the three arguably most important discoveries in particle physics in the past three decades; the discovery of the top quark, the last of the 12 elementary fermions discovered, in 1995 at the DZero experiment at Fermilab and the God Particle discovery in 2012 at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. He led a world-wide community for developing new detector technologies for the International Linear Collider (ILC) being contemplated for the near future, at which time introducing the GEM (Gas Electron Multiplier) detector technology to Korea, for which the Korean team is responsible for building. He is actively working on the U.S. national flagship experiment, Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), constructing an important device of the prototype detector, authoring its complicated technical design report and pioneering and leading new areas of physics.
Dr. Yu served in the now-retired Congressman Joe Barton’s Tarrant County Citizen’s Advisory Committee for close to 10 years not because his thoughts are aligned with him but because they most often not. His fundamental idea for these services is that it is essential for scientists to be closely communicating with a large breath of general public to help them understanding science and its impact to everyday lives. He is a strong advocate of the idea that scientists must be playing a central role in determining science policies. He continues to serve as the chair of the science policy forum for the annual US-Korea Conference of KSEA to promote strong collaboration in science policies between US and Korea at the law maker and policy maker level.
I am honored to be nominated to be part of the UEC and hope to be elected and serve the community well.