Database Systems/Storage Systems, Object-Relational
Databases, Multimedia/Hypermedia Databases,
Geographical Information Systems, Distributed and
Client/Server Technologes, Data Mining, Data
Warehouses, Digital Library, Electronic Commerce, XML
Databases

1990~Present Professor at Computer Science
Department, KAIST
1999~Present Director, Advanced Information
Technology Research Center(AITrc) -- an Engineering
Research Center of Excellence(ERC) supported by Korea
Science and Engineering Foundation(KOSEF)
2004 General chair : the Ninth Int'l Conf. on Database
Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA-2004)
2003 General chair : the Seventh Pacific-Asia
Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
(PAKDD-2003)
2003~2008 Editor-in-Chief, the VLDB Journal
2002~Present Editor: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge
and Data Engineering
2002~Present Member, the National Academy of
Engineering of Korea
2001~Present Member, the Korean Academy of Science
and Technology
2000 Program Chair (Asia, Pacific, and
Australia) : International Conference on Very Large
Data Bases (VLDB), Cairo, Egypt
1999~2000 Vice President, Korea Information
Science Society
1998~2004 Trustee, the VLDB Endowment
1998~1999 Director, Academic Information
Management, Computing, and Science Library, KAIST
1998 Program Chair (Asia and Pacific
Rim) : IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative
Information Systems (CoopIS'98), New York
1998 Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Electrical
Engineering and Information Science(JEEIS)
1997~1998 Member, Board of Directors of Korea
Information Science Society
1996~1998 President, Alumni Association of
KAIST
1995~1997 Chairman, Computer Science
Department, KAIST
1995 Member, Board of Directors of Korea
Information Science Society
1995 Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Korea
Information Science Society
1994~Present Editor: International Journal of
Geographical Information Science
1993~1994 Chairman, Database Section,
Telecommunications Advancement Council, Ministry of
Communications
1993 Consultant at Hewlett Packard Laboratory,
Palo Alto, California
1993 Conference Co-chair: Far East Workshop on
Geographical Information Systems
1992~1994 Chairman, Special Interest Group
on Databases(SIGDB), Korea Information Science Society
1992 Visiting Associate Professor at College of
Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
1991~1995 Editor: Distributed and Parallel
Databases
1991 Visiting Professor at Computer Science
Department, Stanford University
1991 Program Chair, 18th Fall Biannual Conference
of Korea Information Science Society
1990~2003 Editor: The VLDB Journal
1990~1993 Associate Editor: IEEE Data
Engineering Bulletin
1989,90,91,92,95 Program Committee Co-Chair, Vice
Chair: IEEE International l Conf. on Data Engineering
1983~1990 Research Staff Member, IBM T.J.
Watson Research Center
1975~1978 Engineer (Senior Engineer in 1978)
at the Agency for Defense Development(ADD), Korea

2002.4 Academic Excellency Award, Korea Information
Science Society
2001.10 Kahun Academic Excellency Award, Korea
Information Science Society/Kahun Science and
Technology Endowment
1999.12 100 Innovative Technologies of the 20th
centry Award, Ministry of Science and Technology/Seoul
Economic Daily
1999.6 Information and Culture Innovative
Technology Award, Prime Minister of Republic of
Korea/Ministry of Information and Communications
1998.5 Scientist of the Month Award, Ministry of
Science and Technology
1990 Best Paper Award, 6th Int'l Conf. on Data
Engineering, Los Angeles
1973 Awarded the University President's Prize for
being the first from the top in the graduating class of
the engineering college, Seoul National University
1973 Graduated Summa Cum Laude from Seoul
National University
1990, 1991 IBM External Honor Recognition
1989, 1990 IEEE Distinguished Visitor
1988 IEEE Senior Member
1989,90,92,97 Certificate of Appreciation, IEEE
Computer Society
1993,94,96,99,01,02 Recognition of
Contributions, Korea
Information Science Society
1993~ Biographed in the Marquis' Who's Who in the
World (from the 11th Edition)
1995~ Biographed in the Marquis' Who's Who in
Science & Engineering