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| President
(Jong-Hwan Kim) |
 Professor
Jong-Hwan Kim is the Father of Robot Football, entitled by The
Times on September 18, 1997. He was nominated as the New Century
Leader 500 by Barons Who's who in 2000. Micro-Robot World Cup
Soccer Tournament (MiroSot) is his brainchild in October 1995.
He is the Founder of FIRA in June 1997 and IROC in October 1998.
He is the President of FIRA (Federation
of International Robot-soccer Association), of IROC (International
Robot Olympiad Committee), and of the Korea Robot Soccer
Association, and Honorary President of the China Robot Soccer
Association. He was Organizing Chair of 96, 97 MiroSot Korea,
98 FIRA Robot World Cup France, 99 Brazil, and 99 Robot Olympiad
Korea.
He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics
Engineering and Computer Science, from Seoul National University,
Seoul, Korea, in 1981, 1983, and 1987, respectively. From 1984
to 1988, he was a Research Assistant in the Department of Electronics
Engineering at Seoul National University. Since 1988, he has
been with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Korea
Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST),
where he is currently a Professor(http://rit.kaist.ac.kr).
He was a visiting scholar at Purdue University from September
1992 to August 1993. His research interests are in the areas
of Evolutionary Multi-agent Robotic Systems. He has published
more than 200 International Journal/Conference papers.
He is the Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary
Computation, and of the International Journal of Intelligent
and Fuzzy Systems, and was a Member of the Editorial Board of
the Korea Fuzzy and Intelligent Systems society. He was the
Guest Editor of the special issue on MiroSot'96 of the Journal
of Robotics and Autonomous Systems and of the special issue
on Soccer Robotics of the Journal of Intelligent Automation
and Soft Computing. He is one of the co-founders of Asia-Pacific
Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL) and was
Organizing Chair and Program Co-chair of SEAL'96 and Program
Co-chair of SEAL98 and 2000. He was General Chair of the IEEE
Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2001.
He is the recipient of the 1988 Choongang Young Investigator
Award from the Choongang Memorial Foundation, the LG YonAm Foundation
Research Fellowship in 1992, the Korean Presidential Award in
1997, and the SeoAm Foundation Research Fellowship in 1999.
He was and is a Technical Advisor to Hyundai Heavy Industry
Co. Ltd. and Yujin Robotics Co., Seoul, Korea, a special member
of science and technology group of Korea National Assembly,
a planning committee member of World Technopolis Association
(WTA) and Vice President of Young Astronaut Korea (YAK). Currently,
he is the Direct of MRDEC (Micro-Robot
Design Education Center) supported by the Ministry of Commerce,
Industry and Energy(MOCIE) of the Republic of Korea.
:: Email: johkim@vivaldi.kaist.ac.kr
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