Jong-Won Park received his Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Hongik University in 1998 and Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from Seoul National University in 2003. From August 2004 to May 2017, he was a Principal Researcher at the KIMM. He is currently working as a director of the Reliability Assessment Laboratory in the KIMM. His fields of interest include mechanical-system reliability analysis and prediction, hydraulic/mechatronic-system analysis and control, accelerated fatigue-life-test technique, status monitoring, and failure prediction.