Kwang-Yong Kim received his B.S. degree from Seoul National University in 1978, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea, in 1981 and 1987, respectively. He is currently an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and was a Dean of Engineering College of Inha University, Incheon, Korea. He served as an associate editor of ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, a co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems, the editor-in-chief of the Transactions of Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers, the president of Korean Society for Fluid Machinery, and the chairman of the Asian Fluid Machinery Committee. He is currently an associate editor of ASME Open Journal of Engineering and an editorial board member of micromachines. He is a fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, a fellow of National Academy of Engineering of Korea, a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and a recipient of order of service merit, “Yellow Stripes” and order of science and technology merit, “Doyak Medal” from Republic of Korea.