Jong Oh Park
| Jong-Oh Park | |
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| Born | September 13, 1955 |
| Nationality | South Korean |
| Alma mater |
Yonsei University(B.S) KAIST(M.S) Stuttgart University(Ph.D) |
| Occupation | Professor of Chonnam National University, Director of Robot research initiative |
| Website | http://www.jongohpark.com |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 박종오 |
| Hanja | 朴鍾午 |
| Revised Romanization | Bak Jong-o |
| McCune–Reischauer | Pak Chong'o |
Prof. Jong-Oh Park (박종오, born September 13, 1955) is a South Korean robotics scholar. He is Director of the Robot research initiative and Professor of Mechanical System Engineering at the Chonnam National University in South Korea, and presently serves as an executive board member at the International Federation of Robotics (IFR). He has twice received the Scientist of The Year Prize from the Korea Science Reporters Association, and is also the recipient of the IFR's Golden Robot Award, among many other honours. He has also successfully commercialized several robotic systems for medical and industrial applications.
Jong Oh Park received a B.S in Mechanical Engineering from Yonsei University in Seoul. In 1981, he received a M.S in Mechanical Engineering at KAIST in Daejeon.
After his master's degree, he finished a Ph.D in Stuttgart University and has worked as a researcher under the supervision of Hans-Jurgen Warnecke at Fraunhofer-IPA, Stuttgart, Germany from 1982 to 1987.
From 1987 to 2004 he was associated with the Korea Institute of Science and Technology.
He has served as a director of 21C Frontier Project “ Intelligent Microsystem Program” for 5 years.
From 1987 till 2004 he was associated with the Korea Institute of Science and Technology. He has served as a director of 21C Frontier Project “ Intelligent Microsystem Program” for 5 years.
Since 2005, he has been a professor of Chonnam National University and a director of Robot Research Initiative in parallel. Jong Oh Park was the Chairman of ‘The International Federation of Robotics (IFR)’ in 2005 and has been the executive board member of IFR since 2006.
In 2013, He worked as a Vice Chair of Organizing Committee of ISR 2013 and an Organizing chair of ICCAS 2013.
He was an Editor of IEEE Biorob 2014.
He is currently a Vice Chairman of 'Korea Robotics Society' and ‘Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems and also the member of New industry investment strategic council of the ministry of Industry and trade of Russian Federation 2014.
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