Woo-Jai earned his PhD & Post-doc in animal genetics from the University of New Hampshire.

During his tenure as Director of R&D at GenoMar AS, he focused on genomics research for running the best breeding programs to achieve economic sustainability in aquaculture. And previously as Senior Scientist, he ran the molecular lab for construction of genetic maps of major farmed species, including tilapia, salmon, Atlantic cod, halibut, and sea bass.

In 2013, he founded BluGen to research and develop genomics and breeding programs. Woo-Jai spent 30 years in aquaculture and genetics (20 years in Norway). He is considered to be an expert in aquaculture value-chain and has served as advisor to the Korean Ministry of Ocean and Fishery since 2001.

He has received the Korean Presidential Citation for this contributions to the aquaculture industry.