People are the process.

Dr. Jeong-Yeol Han is a space-optics systems expert whose path has run from physics through optics and space instrumentation to space exploration. As Head of the Center for Space Exploration Technology at KASI and Professor at UST, he has led research on the design, fabrication, and testing of space telescopes and optical payloads, on segmented and deformable mirrors, and on precision optical fabrication and polishing. Earlier, as a research engineer at Samsung Thales (now Hanwha Systems), he experienced the constraints and demands of an industrial development floor. In March 2026 he founded AsphoriX with the approval of his institute, commercializing thirty years of aspheric production technology as an AI optics foundry.

Optical fabrication has long depended on the hands and judgment of master opticians. Over more than twenty years of designing, machining, measuring, and aligning space-telescope and payload optics, I learned that every one of those iterations is data. AsphoriX turns that iteration into a measurement-driven closed-loop process. Not a revolution in specifications but a revolution in yield: that is the value we intend to add to the space and defense optics industry. Jeong-Yeol Han · CEO, AsphoriX

Dr. Sug-Whan Kim is the pioneer of large-aperture aspheric production technology in Korea. He earned his doctorate at University College London on full-size active polishing of large aspheric optics and contributed to the development of Precessions, the algorithm-based robotic polishing technology that became the foundation of Zeeko, today's global standard precision-polishing platform. After taking part in the development of the optical payload of NASA's GALEX ultraviolet space telescope with NASA JPL and Caltech, he joined Yonsei University as Professor of Astronomy in 2002, where he researched the fabrication, production, and alignment of aspheric optics, and served as Visiting Faculty at Caltech and as a Non-Resident Scientist at NASA JPL.