 He was appointed Professor at Rutgers University in 1997 and founded the Rutgers Center for Emergent Materials (RCEM) in 2005.He is currently the director of RCEM, a Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers, and a Distinguished Professor at Postech, Korea.His work on complex oxides has been recognized through various prizes, including the 2007 Ho-am Prize, the KBS 2009 Global Korean Award, and the 2010 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials.