Dr. Kyihwan Park, was born in January 1961 in Mokpo, Jeollanam-do, South Korea. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Mechanical Design and Production Engineering, Seoul National University in 1985 and 1987, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, in August 1993. He joined the Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in September 1995 and has been a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering since then. Since September 2004, he has served as the Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering for two years, and since June 2012, he has served as the Director of the Industry-Academia Cooperation center (GTI) for four years, and is currently the Director of Advanced Military Science and Technology (CAMST) Center since July 2019. His research interests include optical sensors and actuators, electromagnetic-based dynamical system design and control, signal processing, and vibration control of precision systems. His current research focuses on the development and application of various LIDAR (light detection and ranging) technologies. In particular, he is commercializing and selling non-contact laser vibrometers for vibration measurement and atomic force microscopes through EM4SYS, which he founded in June 2000.
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