Professor Youjip Won has been elected as the 39th president of the Korean Institute of Information Scienctists and Engineers
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The Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers has announced that Professor Won Youjip from our department has been elected as the 39th president. He took office on January 1, 2024, and will lead the society for the next year.
Professor Won Youjip graduated with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Computational Statistics from Seoul National University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota in the United States.
He has been a professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST since 2019, after serving as a professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Hanyang University.
He is currently a member of the Korean Academy of Engineering and the director of the KAIST Storage Research Center.
Professor Won Youjip stated, “During my term, I will reestablish the identity of the society and seek qualitative leaps that match its quantitative expansion.
First, in the field of education, I will create a forum for discussion and sharing education content, teaching methods, assignments and projects, and the simplification of technical terms into Korean, to achieve world-class information science education.
In the research field, I will do my utmost to improve personnel systems, evaluation systems, and reward standards so that the research results of our members are properly evaluated. Furthermore, I will create a space in which members can share and discuss various difficulties they encounter in educational, research, and development settings.”
The Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers, founded in 1973, is a leading academic organization in the field of computers and software in Korea. It has more than 3,500 university professors as members, with a total membership exceeding 37,000.
