Tae Joong Eom was born in Busan, Korea. He received the Diploma in Electronics from Pusan National University, Korea, in 1998, and received M.S and Ph. D degrees in in Department of Informations and Communications Engineering from the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea, in 2000 and 2005, respectively. He worked in Korea Photonics Technology Institute (KOPTI), Korea in 2004 as Researcher and worked in Beckman Laser Institute of University California, Irvine in 2008 as Research Scientist. In 2011 and 2012, he was a Research Scientist in Department of Biomedical Engineering of Washington University in Saint Louis. From 2005, he was working in Advanced Photonics Research Institute (APRI) of GIST, Korea where he was Senior Research Scientist. His current research areas are in fiber optics devices and a real time biomedical imaging based on an optical coherence tomography and a photoacoustic microscopy.