ABOUT
Professor Won Kim, A World-Renowned Scholar
Professor Kim graduated from MIT and has been a leading scholar in the field of database.
He has designed software education programs for more than 5,000 software engineers at Samsung Electronics for 1.5 years.
The professor also selected 20 top-notch software developers in Samsung Electronics and trained them for one year to help them become world-class designers.
With the goal of totally overhauling university software education in Korea, Gachon University President Lee Gilyeo recruited Professor Kim in 2010 as an Endowed Chair Professor and IT Vice President to establish the Department of Software.
Although the first class of students had CSAT levels of 2 or 3, the percentage of the first graduates landing a job at major corporations or getting into a graduate school and their overall employment rate were on par with that of top-five university graduates, thanks to their outstanding education and training. The curriculum and department operation model was designed by Professor Kim, who oversees and supervises students of all grades.
Education
- Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- B.S./M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Experience
- Executive Vice President / IT Vice President, Gachon University
- Professor, Department of Semiconductor System Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University & Fellow, Sungkyunkwan University
- Senior Advisor, Samsung Electronics
- Founder and CEO of US-based database software companies, UniSQL and Cyber Database
- Research Staff Member, IBM Almaden Research Center, and Director, Microelectronics and Computer Corporation, MCC
Professional Services
- Co-General Chair, The 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management And Communication
- Founder and Editor-in Chief, ACM Transaction on Internet Technology
- Founder and Chair, ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
- Chair, ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data
- Editor-in-Chief, ACM Transactions on Database Systems
Awards
- Distinguished Educator Award, Department of Computer Science, UIUC (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
- Order of Service Merit (Red Stripes) from Korea
- ACM Distinguished Service Award
- The first Korean to become an ACM Fellow
Research and Achievements
Research area Click to visit Professor Kim’s website
- Cloud computing, Social Web, Mitigating the dark side of Internet technologies, Web services architecture
Delivered a keynote speech at iiWAS for three consecutive years (2009-2011)
Recent publications More information
- ”On Cyberwarefare” (International Journal of Web and Grid Services, 2012)
- ”On Cloud Computing Adoption” (International Journal of Web and Grid Service, 2011)
- ”On Social Web Sites” (Most downloaded article from Information Systems Journal, as of September 2009)
- ”Botnets: Threats and Response” (Most downloaded article from International Journal of Web Information Systems, as of April 2011)
- ”The Dark Side of the Internet: Attacks, Costs and Responses” (13th most-read article from Elsevier Information Systems, as of November 2011)