Office: | Advisor to the President for Science and Technology |
Termstart: | 4 May 2020 |
Predecessor: | Lee Kong-joo |
President: | Moon Jae-in |
Birth Date: | 1973 |
Birth Place: | Seoul, South Korea |
Alma Mater: | KAIST University of Michigan |
Termend: | 9 May 2022 |
Successor: | Cho Sung-kyung |
Park Sukyung (; born 1973) is a South Korean professor of mechanical engineering at KAIST with expertise in Biomechanics[1] served as Science and Technology Advisor to President Moon Jae-in from 2020 to 2022.[2] [3]
Park is the youngest person appointed by Moon to a vice-ministerial post[4] as well as the youngest senior member of the Office of the President.[5]
Park was the first female professor to join the faculty of mechanical engineering at KAIST[6] and the first student to graduate from Seoul Science High School in only two years.
Park is a member of the KAIST board of trustees.[7] She was previously a senior researcher at the government-funded Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials and a member of the President's Advisory Council on Science and Technology.
Park holds three degrees in mechanical engineering - a bachelor's and master's from KAIST and a doctorate from the University of Michigan.