Prof. Jung-Wook PARK

Jung-Wook Park was born in Seoul, South Korea. He received a B.S. degree (summa cum laude) from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, in 1999, and M.S.E.C.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 2000 and 2003, respectively. From 2003 to 2004, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA. Since 2005, he has been with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, where he is currently a Professor. He is also Director of the Yonsei-Power System Research Center of Great Energy Transition (Yonsei-PREFER) supported by the leading research program (with the USD 7.2M grant for nine years, during 2020–2029) of the National Research Foundation (NRL), South Korea. His current research interests include power system dynamics, energy management systems, renewable energies-based distributed generation systems, operation and planning of microgrid, and hardware implementation of power-electronic based inverters. He was a recipient of the Young Scientist Presidential Award from the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST), South Korea, in 2013.