Junseok Chae

Junseok Chae (; died 25 March 2020) was a South Korean engineer and academic administrator specialized in microelectromechanical systems. He was a professor at the Arizona State University (ASU) School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering and associate dean of research and innovation at ASU Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.

Life Chae completed a B.S. in metallurgical engineering at Korea University in 1998. He earned a M.S. (2000) and Ph.D. (2003) in electrical engineering and computer science at University of Michigan. His dissertation was titled High-Sensitivity, Low-Noise, Multi-Axis Capacitive Micro-Accelerometers. Chae's doctoral advisor was . He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Engineering Research Center for Wireless Integrated Microsystems.

Chae joined Arizona State University (ASU) in 2005 as an assistant professor of engineering. On August 15, 2017, Chae became associate dean of research and innovation at ASU Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. He was a professor in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering. Chae received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award on MEMS protein sensor array. Chae's remains were found on 17 July 2020 in the Northwest Regional Landfill.

Gabrielle Austin entered a plea of guilty to charges of murder in the second degree and abandoning or concealing a dead body on November 2, 2021; subsequently, her co-defendant, Javian Ezell, also entered his plea of guilty to the same charges, on February 25, 2022. They were sentenced on March 25, 2022, in the Maricopa Superior Court. Austin was sentenced to 20 years incarceration for the murder, while Ezell was sentenced to 25 years incarceration.