Juntae Kim graduated from Seoul National University Department of Control and Instrumentation Engineering with a bachelor's degree in 1986, from the University of Southern California, USA with a master's degree in 1990, and from the University of Southern California, USA with a PhD in 1993. During 1994 and 1995, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Southern Methodist University Postdoctoral Research, USA. Since 1995, he has been a professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, Dongguk University. During 2003 and 2004, he was a visiting professor at Oregon State University, USA. His fields of interest include artificial intelligence, machine learning, and meta-learning.