• B.S. Ewha Womans University, Korea, 1996
• Ph.D University of California, Irvine, 2002
• Postdoctoral Research:
  • Center for Nonlinear Studies/T-13, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Department of Mathematics, University of New Mexico

Research Interests:

• Applied and Computational Mathematics
• Dynamical Systems
• Networks
• Nonlinear Optics and Optical Waveguides
• Electrodynamics in Nonlinear Random Media

Selected Recent Publications:

1. Y. Chung and A. Peleg, Strongly non-Gaussian statistics of soliton parameters due to collision in the presence of Raman scattering, Nonlinearity, in press (2005).
2. Y. Chung, C.K.R.T. Jones, T. Schäfer, and E. Wayne, Ultra-short pulses in linear and nonlinear media, Nonlinearity, in press (2005).
3. Y. Chung, Fluctuations of Bit-Error-Rate with randomly varying birefringence in optical fibers, Optics Express, 12 (25) 6326-6334 (2004).
4. Y. Chung, V.V. Lebedev, and S.S. Vergeles, Radiation-induced interaction of optical solitons in fibers with randomly varying birefringence, Phys. Rev. E 69, 046612 (2004).
5. Y. Chung, V.V. Lebedev, and S.S. Vergeles, Interaction of solitons through radiation in optical fibers with randomly varying birefringence, Opt. Lett. 29 (11) 1245 (2004).