New President of the Korean Operations Research Society: Professor Mo Jeonghun of Yonsei University

Professor Jeong-Hoon Mo appointed as the 34th President of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
AI and ICT expert... Served as advisor to government and industry

The Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society announced on the 2nd that Professor Mo Jeonghun of the Department of Industrial Engineering at Yonsei University has been inaugurated as the 34th president of the society. The term is one year.

Professor Jeonghun Mo, Department of Industrial Engineering, Yonsei University

The Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society, founded in 1976, researches management innovation through scientific approaches. It has 4,500 members. As a member of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS), it engages in academic activities and publishes specialized academic guides to expand research and industrial applications of operations research and management science.

The society operates awards such as the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Application Award, Hyunwoo Kwak Soo-il Management Science Academic Award, Cha Dong-wan Young Management Scientist Award, and Cho Hae-hyung Industry-Academia Cooperation Award in Management Science, supporting research activation in the field and enhancing productivity and innovation activities in industries.

Newly appointed president Mo Jeonghun holds a bachelor's and master's degree in Industrial Engineering from Seoul National University, a master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management Science. He has worked as a senior researcher at AT&T Bell Labs in New Jersey, USA, and as a professor in the Department of Computer Science at KAIST.

Currently, he serves as a member of the Digital Insight Forum of the Ministry of Science and ICT, an advisory member of Samsung Electronics Big Data Center, and a specialized evaluation member in the big data field at the Public Procurement Service. His main research areas include artificial intelligence (AI), reinforcement learning, big data applications and optimization, operations research, and information and communication technology (ICT).