IMaC
⚖️Culture
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Join 'IMaC Lab', if you want to live your best life! (Eng)
Our Lab Motto
"Work hard when researching, play hard when relaxing! Let's become all-around professional players!"
What you can gain after graduating from our lab

Strategic Thinking

Drive

Collaboration Skills

Perseverance

Spirit of Sharing
I will help you develop all these capabilities until the end, and guide you to grow together and create meaningful results. However, "No pain, No gain!" Building all these capabilities requires a lot of effort and patience as outlined below. It's hard for both professors and students to live their best lives, isn't it? But don't worry. It's okay to make mistakes. I will be with you until the end, helping you learn and grow through your mistakes, and find your own path.
PI's 5 Commitments
Create a healthy organizational culture
Let's create a culture where students can grow based on trust, cooperation, ownership, and diligence. Let's foster an environment that enhances productivity while recognizing and encouraging each other's achievements in a positive atmosphere. Let's be professors who students can comfortably approach with questions and concerns.
Present a clear vision
Clearly establish the lab's direction and long-term goals, and actively share these with students. Communicate frequently to ensure students' dreams align with the lab's vision, and lead together toward achieving these goals.
Develop students' expertise
Provide opportunities for students to build their academic and practical expertise, while also growing together by learning new fields myself. Guidance should maintain a balance between support and learning.
Secure the lab's stability
Secure sustainable research funding and resources, managing them efficiently to create a stable research environment. Regularly review and improve lab systems to maximize efficiency.
Continuously learn and grow
Continuously develop personal academic capabilities and become a respected academic leader by sharing knowledge with students. To achieve this, maintain an open mind toward new technologies and knowledge, listen to students' opinions, and always remain open to future possibilities.
Lab Life Guidelines
Events
- To foster a healthy research culture, the following annual presentation events will be held, with appropriate rewards granted to the winners of each event.
- (Last Friday of June) Fail Fest - A day to present failure experiences from experiments, projects, or personal challenges
Awards
- Most Unexpected Failure Award: Awarded to the presenter with the most unique and surprising failure story
- Most Valuable Failure Award: Awarded to the presenter who demonstrates the most meaningful lessons and growth from failure
- (Last Friday of summer break) TEDx day - A day to present your research project in a 10-minute format that non-experts can understand
Awards
- Most Accessible Presentation Award - Awarded to the presenter who effectively communicates complex research to non-experts
- (Last Friday of December) Achievement & Contribution Day - A day to celebrate the dedication and accomplishments of lab members.
Awards:
- Best Supporter Award - Presented to the individual who has consistently contributed to the lab's growth through efforts such as improving the lab environment, organizing databases, and supporting colleagues.
- Best Mentor Award - Awarded to the most outstanding mentor who has provided exceptional guidance and support to peers or junior members in their learning and research.
- Best Achievement Award - Recognizes individuals who have demonstrated exceptional personal achievements or research outcomes, including successful publications, project completions, or the attainment of significant goals.
- (Last Friday of winter break) Challenge day - A day to propose and discuss outrageous research projects without considering technical feasibility
Awards
- Most Creative Idea Award: Awarded to the team or individual who proposes the most original and imaginative idea beyond practical limitations
- Most Logical Critic Award: Awarded to the student who provides logical and persuasive criticism of proposed wild ideas while offering constructive questions and alternatives
Research Hours
- Flexible work hours as long as it doesn't interfere with planned schedules
- Graduate students must observe core working hours (10 AM - 4 PM)
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Work hours will be specified after consultation for students who fall behind on their schedules
- Vacation
- Max 15 days/year
- Additional 5 days vacation
- Upon paper publication or project completion
- Additional vacation pay provided
- Up to 2 consecutive weeks possible as long as it doesn't interfere with work
Research Environment
- Monthly laboratory deep cleaning
- Share location, usage instructions, etc. in Equipment DB when new equipment is introduced
- Share in Materials DB when purchasing materials
- Check DB and request purchase when materials are depleted. Also check DB and request purchase for equipment and office maintenance items
- Full tuition coverage and living expenses support, plus compensation based on research achievements
- Doctoral students will be provided with at least one opportunity to attend an international conference during their degree program.
Research Results and Knowledge Management
- Understand the functions of Project, Milestone, and Task DBs
- Document experimental methods, results, and data in Experiment DB
- Read and thoroughly comprehend at least one paper when reviewing literature
- Organize and share studied papers or fundamental knowledge in Knowledge DB
- Document relevant technology and methods in Tutorial DB before paper publication
Meetings
- Individual Meetings
- Mandatory weekly individual meetings
- Punctuality for meeting times
- Prepare materials in Meeting DB before consultation
- Project Meetings
- (Project Planning Phase) Participate in meetings and share responsibilities for research and proposal writing
- (Project Execution Phase) Biweekly review of project milestones and tasks
- (Project Reporting Phase) Share responsibilities for organizing results and writing annual reports
- Group Meetings
- Monthly English presentation by each student
- Present according to advisor's requested content and objectives