Shinil Cho attended Rikkyo University in Tokyo, Japan, for his BS degree; Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea, for his MS; and the Ohio State University in Ohio, USA, for his PhD. He held post-doctoral fellowships at the Ohio State University and University of Florida, and he was also a visiting professor at University of South Carolina. He has been at La Roche College since 1995. Currently he is an associate professor at La Roche. He has conducted research in cryogenic magnetic resonance spectroscopy below 1 K and biometric fingerprint authentication. His current research interest includes quantum computation, biometrics, and physics education. Other than physics, he has many publications and has done many presentations on biometrics in London, Tokyo, Hongkong, Singapore, and several cities in the United States.