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Sungroh yoon

Chairperson of the Presidential Committee on the 4th Industrial Revolution

Sungroh Yoon is one of the world’s distinguished experts in the areas of artificial intelligence and big data, the two core technologies driving the 4th industrial revolution and holds a professorship at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University. His achievement includes contribution in creating new industry and services leveraging the AI technology through academia - industry collaboration. In 2013, Sungroh Yoon was awarded Young IT Engineer Award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Education Award by Seoul National University, the most prestigious honor granted to the faculty of Seoul National University. His list of accolades includes Shinyang Engineering Award (2019), Korean Scientist and Engineer of the Month by the Ministry of Science and ICT (2018), IBM Best Paper Award (2018), Overseas Study Award by SBS (Seoul Broadcasting System) Foundation (2016) and many more. He has been publishing a number of research papers on the topic of AI and big data. Sungroh Yoon, born in Seoul in 1973, received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering at Seoul National University and M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University for his studies in unsupervised machine learning. Sungroh Yoon also served as a senior engineer at Intel Corporation.