Kwangjo Kim is a professor in Graduate School of Information Securtity, School of Computing of KAIST.



He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees of Electronic Engineering in Yonsei University, Korea in 1980 and 1883, respectively and Ph.D of Div. of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Yokohama National University, Japan in 1991. He has served as a board member of International Association for Cryptologic Research （IACR） from 2000 to 2004, chair of Asiacrypt Steering Committee from 2005 to 2008 and president of Korea Institute of Information Security and Cryptography（KIISC） in 2009. He was also a visiting professor in MIT (2005）, UCSD（2005, KUSTAR,UAE（2012） and an education specialist in ITB, Indonesia （2013）. He is currently a Korea Representative to IFIP TC-11, fellow of the IACR and



honerable president of KIISC. His research interests include the theory of cryptology and information security and its application.