Sun Il Kwon (S’07–M’14) was born in Daegu, South Korea. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejon, South Korea, in 2002, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the interdisciplinary program of radiation applied life science from Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2013. From 2007 to 2013, he was a Research Scientist in the Department of Nuclear Medicine and Medical Research Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea. Since 2013, he has been a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA. His research interests include novel gamma-ray detector development and system design for medical imaging technologies, especially positron emission tomography. He holds six patents. Mr. Kwon was a recipient of the International Atomic Energy Agency Fellowship Award in 2010, IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Seoul Young Investigator's Award in 2010, and the Korea Research Foundation Brain Korea 21 Best Paper Award in 2011.