Wook Hyun Kwon received B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Seoul National University in 1966 and 1972, respectively, and a Ph D. degree from Brown University in 1975. He was an adjunct assistant professor at the University of lowa in 1976-1977. He has been with Seoul National University since 1977, where he is currently a professor emeritus of School of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 2008. He was a visiting assistant professor at Stanford University in 1981-1982. He has been with DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology) , where he was a chair professor in 2010-2014 and is currently a visiting chair professor since 2015.
Dr. Kwon has published about 150 international journal papers and approximately 260 international conference papers, mostly in the areas of predictive and receding horizon controls, time-delayed system, FIR filtering, and real-time computer applications for automation. He authored two graduate text books, “Receding Horizon Control: Model Predictive Control for State Models” appeared in July, 2005 by Springer and “Stabilizing and Optimizing Control for Time-Delay Systems” appeared in July, 2018 by Springer. He supervised about 130 graduate students including 55 Ph.D students. From his encouragement of entrepreneurship, some of his graduate students founded about 10 start-up companies including Humax, seven of which have already gone public in KOSTAQ.
He became a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK) in 1995, a Fellow of the Korean Academy of Sciences and Technology (KAST) in 1996, a Fellow of IEEE in 1999, a Fellow of TWAS (The world Academy of Sciences for the Developing Countries) in 2001, and a Fellow of IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) in 2010. He received Korean Academy of Science (KAS) Award in 1997, Brown University Engineering Alumni Medal (BEAM) Award in 2003, and the Korea Highest Scientist/Engineer Award of Ministry of Science and Technology in 2007. He was designated in 2018 as a man of national merit for science and technology by Korean Government (total 41 deceased and 19 alive), among those who lived in Korea since 1948 when the Republic of Korea was founded.
He was President of the Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems (ICROS) of Korea in 1999, President of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers (KIEE) in 2001, Vice-President of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK) in 2002-2006, President of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) in 2005-2008, and Vice-President of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) in 2007-2010. He was a member of Trustee of POSTECH in 2007-2015, a member of Trustee of DGIST in 2014-2017, a member of Board of LS holdings in 2011-2017, and is a member of Scientific Advisory Board of Institute of Basic Sciences (IBS) since 2015.
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