In-gyu Park, a distinguished professor at the University of Seoul's Department of Physics, has been appointed as the head of the Science and Technology Innovation Bureau at the Ministry of Science and ICT. The head of the Science and Technology Innovation Bureau is equivalent to a third vice minister, overseeing the deliberation and adjustment of the national research and development (R&D) budget and managing the national strategic technology innovation policies.
The new deputy minister, born in 1965, graduated from Whimoon High School in Seoul and the Department of Physics at Korea University. He also obtained his master's degree in physics from the same university and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Paris 11 in France.
He began his career as a researcher at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the world's largest particle physics laboratory. He later served as a research professor at Yale University and the University of Rochester in the United States, returning to Korea to lead the Big Data Research Center at the University of Seoul. Since 2009, he has been a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Seoul and is currently a distinguished professor.
▲ From Incheon ▲ Department of Physics at Korea University ▲ Master's in Physics from Korea University ▲ Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Paris 11 in France ▲ Researcher at the European Organization for Nuclear Research ▲ Research professor at Yale University in the U.S. ▲ Research professor at the University of Rochester in the U.S. ▲ Director of the Big Data Research Center at the University of Seoul ▲ Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Seoul