Joseph Jeong has joined Applied Ventures, the corporate venturing fund for US-based nanomanufacturing technology firm Applied Materials. Jeong joined in August, after pursuing an MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and an internship at venture capital firm ARCH Venture Partners.

Prior to his stint at business school, Jeong held a position as a cleantech engineer, working on lithium-ion batteries and fuel cell systems at Samsung SDI, a clean energy subsidiary of home electronics conglomerate Samsung, in…