Seung Jo Kim

Quick Facts

Full Name	Seung Jo Kim
Occupation	Engineer
Date Of Birth	Jun 24, 1950(1950-06-24)
Age	74
Birthplace	South Korea
Country	South Korea
Horoscope	Cancer

Seung Jo Kim Biography

Seung Jo Kim is one of the most popular and richest Engineer who was born on June 24, 1950 in South Korea, South Korea.

Kim completed his bachelor’s degree in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Seoul National University in 1973. After graduation, he started his mandatory military service as a Republic of Korea Air Force officer specializing in aircraft maintenance. In 1974, he moved from that position to a military research organization, the Agency for Defense Development (ADD), and worked as an experimental aerodynamicist in the trisonic wind tunnel test facility at ADD. He continued working in ADD after his retirement from the Air Force until 1979. He was promoted to senior researcher with the development of the six component sting balance for the trisonic wind tunnel.

In 1979, he went to the University of Texas for graduate school. He finished M.S. (1981) and Ph.D. (1985) degrees on the finite element analysis of solids and structures, and Professor J. T. Oden was his supervisor. After seven months of post-doctoral work under Professor Oden, he came back to be an assistant professor at his alma mater, Seoul National University.

Seung Jo Kim Net Worth

Seung Jo Kim is one of the richest Engineer from South Korea. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Seung Jo Kim 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Seung Jo Kim (born June 24, 1950) is a South Korean aerospace engineer. He has been the current President of KARI (Korea Aerospace Research Institute) since June 2011, where the most of the national aerospace systems like aircraft, satellites and rockets are developed. During his tenure, Kim led the development of smart UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), the launch of KOMPSAT-3 (Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite-3), KOMPSAT-5, STSAT-3 (Science and Technology Satellite-3) and the first Korean space launch vehicle, Naro. Before becoming president of KARI, Kim had been a professor of the Engineering College at Seoul National University since 1986. He chaired the KSAS (Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences) in 2009, the KSCM (Korean Society for Composite Materials) from 2005 to 2006, and the KSIAM (Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) from 2004 to 2008. He was also head of the New Aerospace Technology Research Institute from 2001 to 2003. Kim has been a fellow of the AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) since 2010 and the Institute of Physics since 2004.

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Kim led the Seoul National University’s conclusion of an MOU on developing a high performance super-computer with Microsoft, Intel and Samsung Electronics in 2002. Based on this MOU, a 1 Tera flop super-computer, PEGASUS was developed in November 2002. PEGASUS is composed of 520 CPUs and 260 calculation nodes. It was 56th highest performance super-computer in the world at that time.

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These activities attracted Microsoft and he was able to have a 3-year research contract with Microsoft under the title of “Development of High Performance/Friendlier FE Software IPSAP for Windows Cluster OS.” Related to this work, he also received “Leadership Award for Technical Computing” from Microsoft in March 2007.