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Roberto V. Zicari is an affiliated professor at the Yrkeshögskolan Arcada, Helsinki, Finland, and an adjunct professor at the Seoul National University, South Korea.

Roberto V. Zicari is leading a team of international experts who defined an assessment process for Trustworthy AI, called Z-Inspection®.

Previously he was a professor of Database and Information Systems (DBIS) at the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, where he founded the Frankfurt Big Data Lab.

He is an internationally recognized expert in the field of Databases and Big Data. His interests also expand to Ethics and AI, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. He is the editor of the ODBMS.org web portal and of the ODBMS Industry Watch Blog.  He was for several years a visiting professor with the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology within the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at UC Berkeley (USA).

Heejin Kim is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Graduate School of Data Science (GSDS) at Seoul National University and a member of the team of international researchers leading an assessment process for Trustworthy AI, called Z-Inspection®. She also serves as a Senior Associate Editor for the Asian Journal of International Law (Cambridge University Press). Prior to joining GSDS, she worked as a Cyber Security CRC Fellow (lecturer-level) at the UNSW School of Law in Sydney, teaching and researching in the area of cyber security and international law (2019–2021); and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Law and the ASEAN Cluster of the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore (2015–2019). She has taught at the Underwood International College of Yonsei University and Chungnam National University Law School as a Lecturer; and provided research consultancy for the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy of Korea.

She holds LL.M and J.S.D (Doctor of the Science of Law) from Yale Law School. She is a recipient of multiple academic awards including the Korean Government Scholarship for Overseas Doctoral Studies (Ministry of Education); Lilian Goldman Scholarship and the Howard M. Holtzmann Fellowship in International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution (Yale). For her first law degree, she studied at Sookmyung Women’s University. 

Her research and teaching interests broadly include AI ethics and human rights; global data governance and digital trade.

Hyung-Sin Kim is an Assistant Professor in Graduate School of Data Science at Seoul National University(SNU). He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from SNU in 2009, 2011, and 2016, respectively, all with outstanding thesis awards.

He was a Postdoctoral Scholar of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley as a member of Real-time, Intelligent, Secure, Explainable systems(RISELab) and Building Energy Transportation Systems(BETS) group led by prof. David E. Culler until August 2019. He was a Software Engineer at Google until February 2020.

His research interest includes machine learning, systems and applications for Ambient AI and Internet of Things. He has published 65 academic papers and received Qualcomm Fellow ship (2011), National Research Foundation (NRF) Global Ph.D. Fellowship (2011) and NRF Postdoctoral Fellowship (2016), and won three best paper runner-ups at SenSys, DCOSS, and WisNet.

Joonseok Lee is Assistant Professor at Graduate School of Data Science in Seoul National University, leading the Visual Information Processing Lab (http://viplab.snu.ac.kr/), and a research engineer at Foresight team at Google Research. He is mainly working on video understanding, multimodal representation learning, recommendation systems, and scientific applications of machine learning. He earned his Ph. D. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2015, under the supervision of Dr. Guy Lebanon and Prof. Hongyuan Zha. His thesis is about local approaches for collaborative filtering, with recommendation systems as the main application. He has done three internships during Ph.D, including Amazon, Microsoft Research, and Google. Before coming to Georgia Tech, he worked in NHN corp. in Korea (2007-2010). He received his B.S degree in computer science and engineering from Seoul National University. He co-organized the YouTube-8M Large-Scale Video Understanding Workshop as a program chair, and served as the publicity chair for AISTATS 2015 conference. More information is available on his website (http://www.joonseok.net).

Seunggeun Lee is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Data Science at Seoul National University (SNU). He received B.S. in Biology and Statistics (dual major) from Seoul National University (2005) and a Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel (2010). After Ph.D. he completed postdoctoral training at Harvard School of Public Health (2013). From 2013 to 2020, he was an Assistant/Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan.

 His research interest includes methods and applications for Genomics and Health Data for more discovery and better risk prediction. He has published over 70 papers, including SKAT/SKAT-O for rare variant tests and SAIGE/SAIGE-GENE for biobank data analysis. More information is available on his lab website (https://www.leelabsg.org/).

Hyunwoo Park is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Data Science at Seoul National University. Before joining SNU, he was an Assistant Professor in Management Sciences at the Fisher College of Business and a Core Faculty for the Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) at The Ohio State University. Prior to OSU, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Tennenbaum Institute at Georgia Tech. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech, a Master of Information Management and Systems from UC Berkeley, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University.

His research interests include business and data analytics with an emphasis on visualization, supply chain management from the network perspective, and technology and innovation management in the presence of digital platforms.

His research has been published in leading journals including Academy of Management Review, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (TEM), IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), Journal of Operations Management, and Research Policy.

Professor Heo is a public law professor at Seoul National University Law School. He teaches administrative law, environmental law, and law and economics. He received his Ph. D. in law and L.L.M. degree from Seoul National University Graduate School of Law, and he received his bachelor’s degree in economics from Seoul National University Economics Department.

He is interested in the research topics of economic regulation with the analytic tools of economics. Recently, he is mostly interested in the field of AI Ethics and Law, climate change and energy law, food safety law, IT & privacy law, and judicial system. He also participated in the process of framing the Green Growth Act and the Emission Trade Act, and revision of the Data Protection Law in Korea.

Before joining the SNU Law School as a faculty member in 2006, he served as a judge of Seoul Central District Court in Korea. He was a presiding judge of specialized panel for the intellectual property law cases in the Seoul Central District Court from 2005 to 2006.

He stayed as a visiting scholar at Stanford University Asia Pacific Research Center in U.S. from Aug. 2010 to Aug. 2011. He also stayed at Munich University College of Law in Germany from Dec. 2009 to Feb. 2010.

He is currently a board member of the Korean Public Law Association, the Korean Environmental Law Association, the Korean Law and Economics Association, and the Korean Regulation Law Association. He used to be the chief-editor of the Korean Journal of Law and Economics from 2015 to 2019.

Bernhard Egger is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (https://cse.snu.ac.kr/en) at Seoul National University (https://en.snu.ac.kr/) (SNU) where he leads the Computer Systems and Platforms Laboratory (https://csap.snu.ac.kr/). He received a combined B.Sc./M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (https://ethz.ch/en.html) in 2001 and a PhD degree in Computer Science from SNU in 2008. From 2008, Bernhard spent three years as a senior research engineer at Samsung's central research facility, the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) (https://www.sait.samsung.co.kr/saithome/main/main.do) before re-joining SNU in March of 2011. Since February 2021, he is serving as the Associate Dean of International Affairs (https://oia.snu.ac.kr/) at Seoul National University. 

Bernhard's research interest include the engineering, design, and implementation of system software, runtimes, and compilers for big data and AI workloads with a focus on practicality, efficiency, performance, security, and privacy. More information can be found at https://csap.snu.ac.kr/bernhard.

Tae In Park is an Academic-Industrial Cooperation Professor at Seoul National University College of Medicine, where he manages the SNU Project Group for Education and Research in Medical AI (SNU AI.MED). He also directs international cooperation and coordination efforts at the University’s Medical Big Data Research Center (MBRC). His current research interests include policy dimensions of artificial intelligence for global health.

Before joining SNU, he was a Research Professor at Yonsei University Institute for Global Engagement & Empowerment (IGEE). At the IGEE, under the auspices of the 8th UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, he crafted a strategic vision for the annual Global Engagement & Empowerment Forum on Sustainable Development (GEEF).

He is a public administration scholar with over 12 years of professional experience localizing sustainable development agendas, most notably in the education and tourism sectors. He previously served as the Director of the UN World Tourism Organization’s poverty eradication initiative while conducting extensive field research in many African countries including Ethiopia and South Sudan.

He is a Senior Research Fellow of the Education Commission Asia (ECA). Between 2014 and 2017, he was the Executive Secretary of the Asian Association for Public Administration (AAPA). He is a Korean national and holds a PhD in Public Administration from Yonsei University and a MA in Governance and Development from the University of Sussex.

Niko Hildebrandt is Full Professor at Université de Rouen Normandie (France) and currently full time Visiting Professor at Seoul National University (South Korea) in the research group of Professor Jwa-Min Nam in the Department of Chemistry. He is head of the nanoFRET group (nanofret.com) at the COBRA Lab in Rouen, France. He holds a diploma in Medical Physics (2001, TFH Berlin, Germany) and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry (2007, University of Potsdam, Germany). From 2008 to 2010, Niko was group leader at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research (Potsdam, Germany). Afterwards, he was head of the NanoBioPhotonics group at the Institute for Fundamental Electronics (2010 to 2016) and the Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (2016 to 2019) at Université Paris Saclay (Orsay, France). From 2014 to 2019 he was a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Niko’s main research interest is time-resolved and time-gated photoluminescence spectroscopy and microscopy and the application of lanthanides and nanomaterials for multiplexed FRET biosensing. He has co-authored more than 120 scientific articles, 9 book chapters, and 8 patents and is editorial board member of Microchimica Acta (Springer Nature), Methods and Applications in Fluorescence (IOP Publishing), and Analysis & Sensing (Wiley - ChemPubSoc Europe). 

Group-website: www.nanofret.com.

List of publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=&user=G5VNT_cAAAAJ 

Associate professor, Environmental Planning at Seoul National University

-Education: BA & ME in Geography Education at SNU and Ph.D. in Geography at Univ. of Minnesota

-Research Field: Gender and Planning, International Migration and human mobilities, Multicultural spaces, Feminist urban study

Since receiving all degrees in Geography, I have always engaged in interdisciplinary research revolving around gender, mobilities, and spaces.

Before moving to my current department, I worked at the Institute of Humanities at Seoul National University for more than ten years.

Collaborating with various scholars in humanities, I have developed insights into how spatialities influence human and social development.

After joining urban planning school in 2018, my research has further expanded to gendered urban experiences, (im)mobilities of urban precariats and minorities, and inclusive urban policies. Recently I have worked on how migration governance shapes the civic rights and mobilities of immigrants along with collaborative work to launch the Asian Migration Center in SNU Asia Center. The collaboration will include international comparative policy studies among Asian countries, marital migrants and multicultural families in South Korea, and migrant workers and social construction of 'skills' from Asian perspectives.

Future research will expand on how technological innovation affects the mobilities of women and minorities and the ethical issues over post-humanities.

Nam-Jong Paik, MD, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Seoul National University College of Medicine and at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital. He obtained his M.D. from Seoul National University and completed his Ph.D. in preventive medicine at the same institution, in addition to residency training in rehabilitation medicine at Seoul National University Hospital. He also completed a 2-year clinical fellowship in neurorehabilitation and clinical neurophysiology at SNUH, as well as a visiting fellowship at the Human Cortical Physiology Section of the NIH/NINDS in the US.

Dr. Paik has held various administrative positions at the hospital, including President & CEO, Chief Public Health Officer, Chief Finance & Strategic Officer, Chief Communications Officer, Director of the Referral Center, and the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. At the medical college, he served as Chair of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine.

Dr. Paik is currently the President-Elect of the World Federation for NeuroRehabilitation and serves as the editor for the 'Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine.' He is also a member of the National Academy of Medicine of Korea and sits on the board of directors for the Korean Society for NeuroRehabilitation, the Korean Geriatric Society, and the Korean Telemedicine Society. In the past, he served as the member-at-large of the World Federation for NeuroRehabilitation, the first president of the Asia-Oceanian Society for NeuroRehabilitation, and the Chair of the Korean Society for NeuroRehabilitation. 

Dr. Paik's contributions to the field have been recognized with several awards, including the 2019 Seok-Jeon Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2014 Scientific Award from the Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine. He also received the Fletcher H. McDowell Award from the American Society for Neurorehabilitation in 2007 and the First Place Poster Award from the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine in 2009.

Jaemin Lee is currently Professor of Law at School of Law, Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea. He obtained his LL.B., LL.M. and Ph.D. from Seoul National University; LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center; and J.D. from Boston College Law School. His major areas of teaching and research are public international law, international economic law and international dispute settlement. He has published articles and books (including book chapters) on various topics of public international law, international trade law, international investment law, and trade policy. His book entitled "Artificial Intelligence and International Law" was published in May 2022 from Springer (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-1496-6), and “East Asia in a New Legal Landscape: FTAs and Dispute Settlement” was published by Seoul National Univ. Press in September 2022 (https://snuac.snu.ac.kr/?u_project=east-asia-in-a-new-legal-landscape) (ISBN: 978-89-521-2993-2). His most recent article “Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Uganda)” was published by the American Journal of International Law in January 2023 (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law). His recent academic focus is to examine the impact of AI and digital society on international law and international dispute settlement. He served as President of the Korean Society of International Economic Law (2020-2021), and Vice President of the Korean Society of International Law (2021). He is currently serving as the Director of the Asia Pacific Law Institute of Seoul National University. He can be reached at 82-2-880-7572 (office) or via e-mail at jaemin@snu.ac.kr.

Florian Möslein is Director of the Institute for Law and Regulation of Digitalisation (www.irdi.institute) and Professor of Law at the Philipps-University Marburg, where he teaches Contract Law, Company Law and Capital Markets Law.

He previously held academic positions at the Universities of Berlin, St. Gallen, and Bremen, and visiting fellowships in Italy (Florence, European University Institute), the US (NYU, Stanford and Berkeley), Australia (University of Sydney), Spain (CEU San Pablo, Madrid) and Denmark (Aarhus). Having graduated from the Faculty of Law in Munich, he also holds academic degrees from the University of Paris-Assas (licence en droit) and London (LL.M. in International Business Law). Florian Möslein published three monographs and over 80 articles and book contributions and has edited seven books.

His current research focus is on regulatory theory, corporate sustainability and the legal challenges of the digital age.

Gi Eun Kim is a Professor in Dept. Biotechnology at Seokyeong University(Sungbukgu Seokyeonro 124, Seoul, Korea). She received the B.S. degree in Food Technology from Korea University in 1980. She received a Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing in Biotechnology from TU Berlin, Germany in 1988.

She was a member of Green Committee in City of Seoul, Korea from 2015 to 2020. She is a Board member of KEPAS(Korean Environmental Policy & Administration Society) since 2016. She was a member of FTI Burgenland, Austria from 2014 to 2019.  She was the Austrian Council for Research & Technology Development (RFTE) from 2011 to 2016. Since 2012, she is a board member of 'Scientists & Engineers without Borders'. Since 2012, she is also a committee member of KEITI(Korea Environmental Institute & Technology). She has studied at TU Berlin, Gärungsgewerbe, Institut für Hefetechnology, Max Planck Institut in Berlin, Fraunhofer Institut, several German companies.

Her research interest includes Microorganisms from Korean traditional fermentative products, Soil nutrients for urban agiculture, Mycorrhiza, and Struvite.

Jason J. Jung is a Full Professor in Chung-Ang University (Seoul, Korea) and a director of Knowledge Engineering Laboratory, since September 2014. Before joining CAU, he was an Assistant Professor in Yeungnam University, Korea since 2007. Also, he was a postdoctoral researcher in INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France in 2006, and a visiting scientist in Fraunhofer Institute (FIRST) in Berlin, Germany in 2004. His main research topic focuses on knowledge engineering on social networks by using various AI methodologies, e.g., big data mining, machine learning, and logical reasoning. Recently, he has been working on intelligent schemes to understand various social dynamics in large-scale social media.

For more info, Knowldge Engineering Lab at Chung-Ang University, Korea: http://ke.cau.ac.kr/ 

Alexander Stoimenow is a visiting researcher in the Complexity and Real computation lab, School of Computing, KAIST. He received B.S. degree in Computer science a Humboldt University in 1997 and Ph.D. in Mathematics from Freie University Berlin in 1998. He was a postdoc at the Mathematics Institute of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich in 98-99. He was a JSPS Postdoc fellow at University of Tokyo from 2004 to 2006. He participated in COE Program, at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University in 2006-07. He was a researcher at Osaka City University Advanced Mathematical Institute from 2007 to 2008. He became a BK21 Project Researcher at Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea from 2008 to 2010. He was an assistant professor in Dept. of Mathematics at Keimyung University from 2010 to 2014. He was an assistant professor at GIST College, Gwangju Inst. of Sci. and Tech., Korea from 2014 to 2017 and associate professor from 2017 to 2020. His research interests include several areas of knot theory, with relations to combinatorics, number theory and algebra.

Guglielmo Niccolò Piozzi is a general surgeon specialized in oncologic robotic colorectal surgery. He graduated in Medicine at Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan, Italy, in 2014. He completed the Residency Program in General Surgery at Università Statale di Milano, Italy, in 2020. During his surgical training, he specialized in oncologic robotic and laparoscopic colorectal surgery. He accomplished the International Fellowship for Robotic and Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery at Korea University Anam Hospital in Seoul, South Korea (2019-2020). He was given the Korean Medical Limited License from the Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare as first Non-Korean in Korea University Anam Hospital. He then accomplished the International Clinical Fellowship Program at Korea University Anam Hospital in Seoul, South Korea (2021-2022). 

He is a fully licensed surgeon in Italy and the United Kingdom. He is member of the Programme Committee of the European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP).

He is a passionate researcher with 50 publications in surgery. He is a research mentor and an active scientific peer reviewer for several international indexed journals. 

His research interest includes: colorectal cancer, robotic surgery, minimally invasive surgery, anus-preserving techniques, intersphincteric resection, complete mesorectal excision, surgical technique, surgical anatomy.

Ralf Beuthan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Myongji University (Seoul). After studying Philosophy, Literature Studies, Media and Film Studies he received his Master in Philosophy (M.A.) at Technical University of Braunschweig, and later his Ph.D. degree in Film and Philosophy at Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg (supervisor: Prof. W. Welsch). At the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, he worked as a research associate at interdisciplinary projects first on Hegel’s concept of historicity of knowledge and normativity, later on the role of education (“Bildung”) for the actualization of freedom. Since 2011 he is a Professor for Philosophy at Myongji University.

In addition to ongoing studies on modern and postmodern philosophy (incl. German Idealism, post- and transhumanism, media philosophy), he is currently focusing on questions of game philosophy, game ethics and ethics of medialized lifeworlds (see NRF project about “Specto-Performative Action”).

An educated physicist and former associate professor of mathematics in Germany (2010-2015), Martin has been associate professor at KAIST's School of Computing since 2015. As former spokesperson of the IANUS group on scientific peace research and technology assessment, he posits that the recent hype about AI is mostly due to technological and quantitative progress -- while the perspective on AI from the Humanities as well as its mathematical/algorithmic background needs to catch up.

I am a philosophy professor from the Humanities Research Institute at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Korea. I did my doctorate in 2016 in the philosophical seminar at Siegen University with the topic "Empiricity of I think in Kant's critique of pure reason".

The institute I am affiliated with has been conducting a HK+(Humanities Korea) project of "National Research Foundation" in Korea with the topic "Artificial Intelligence Humanities" since 2017.

I have participated in many projects related to artificial intelligence ethics, for example, "A Study on the national policy for ethical Artificial Intelligence" (https://scienceon.kisti.re.kr/srch/selectPORSrchReport.do?cn=TRKO202100008989)

My scientific main points are in German classical philosophy as well as Kantian philosophy and philosophy of artificial intelligence. Several essay books in the field of AI philosophy and also Kant philosophy I have published and edited. Now I continue to try to connect these two areas, namely Kant and KI, from a unified insight.

My new research result is the book "Kant and Artificial Intelligence”.(De Gruyter, 2022 open access: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110706611/html)

INSEAD. MBA, Yale University. Master of Architecture, New York University. BA Anthropology and Sustainable Design.

Melody is principal of Bo-DAA, an award-winning architecture firm based in Seoul and New York.

 Her projects have won international acclaim including accolades from Dezeen Awards, Architecture MasterPrize, German Design Award, the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism and is published in 14 countries.

With a BA in anthropology and MBA from INSEAD, her interests and experience extend across the entire project cycle of the built environment: from finance, development, design and construction, materials, and operation.

She serves as consultant for the Architecture and Urban Research Institute of Korea.

Clara Kwon is a licensed landscape architect in North America. She founded Stand Landscape Architecture with a focus on bottom-up community design projects, most notably designing a food forest park in Atlanta, Georgia that was published in Landscape Architecture Magazine. She was previously Director of Parks Design for the City of Atlanta where she managed a multi-disciplinary team, oversaw more than $100M of active capital projects requiring legislative approval and cooperation with multiple community and non-profit partners. Clara steered the direction of the 10-year Atlanta Parks & Recreation Comprehensive Plan, with the assistance of Bloomberg Associates’ Amanda Burden, previously Planning Commissioner of New York City. With Clara’s work at both the community (bottom-up) and government (top-down) level, she is currently focused on how community relationships create landscape, how design processes could be democratized and how AI could help and hinder this process.

Prior to her work in Atlanta, Clara worked at some of the leading design offices in Toronto and New York City on award-winning projects. She has taught at the Ontario College of Art & Design University. She graduated with a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture in 2005 from the University of Guelph.

Sira Maliphol is an assistant professor of Technology and Society at The State University of New York, Korea (affiliated with Stony Brook University), located in Songdo, Incheon. 

He has worked on developing STI policy for several countries in Africa, Latin America, and South and Southeast Asia. He has held fellowships at the STI Office of Thailand and the Science & Technology Policy Institute of Korea. He has also worked in several arenas including research institutes, the non-profit sector, and the private sector (including DotCom startups).

He teaches courses on the effects of technology on society including ICT for development (ICT4D) issues. His research focuses on innovation and development, including socioeconomic effects of science, technology, and innovation.

He received his Ph.D. in Technology Management, Economics, and Policy (TEMEP) at Seoul National University. He also holds an M.A. from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and a B.A. from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J.

Alvaro Fuentes is a Research Professor with the Core Research Institute of Intelligent Robots (CRIIR-JBNU) and the Department of Electronics Engineering at Jeonbuk National University (JBNU), South Korea; where he is the research group leader of the Multimedia Laboratory. He received his B.S. in Mechatronics Engineering (UTN, Ecuador) in 2012, and his M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics Engineering, majoring in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision from Jeonbuk National University in 2016 and 2019, respectively. After his Ph.D., he conducted his postdoctoral research at the CRIIR-JBNU (2019 – 2022). 

Throughout his career, he has also participated in several studies and research stays in Germany with the support of the DAAD. He has authored and co-authored several publications with high academic impact, especially in the area of Artificial Intelligence for Smart Farming. His main research and teaching interests include Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and Robotics. He is passionate about developing algorithms to extract useful information from data with particular applications in robotics, transportation, infrastructure, agriculture, medicine, etc. 

In between his studies in Ecuador-Germany, and the beginning of his graduate program in South Korea, he spent about a year living in the Amazon Rainforest (2012-2013) as a research fellow on sustainable development and understanding well-being in local indigenous communities. That encouraged him to pursue a special interest in Sustainable Development and through his work, analyze how AI and technology could contribute to achieving it in an ethical and responsible way.

More information is available on his personal website

Ph.D. Tae Kyung(James) Kwon is an experienced business professional with a diverse skill set and expertise in electronics engineering, project management, entrepreneurship, and leadership. He holds a Master's degree in Electronics Engineering from Yonsei University and has completed an e-MBA program from Sogang University, as well as multiple certifications, including a certification in entrepreneurship from XJTL Liverpool University. With extensive experience in multiple industries, including electronics, semiconductors, autonomous vehicles, and AI data analysis, he has developed a broad perspective on business operations and market trends. Recently completing a PhD in the Integrated Major in Smart City Global Convergence and Interdisciplinary program in Landscape Architecture at Seoul National University, he has showcased his commitment to continuous learning and staying ahead of the curve in emerging fields. His research focus on the impact of autonomous vehicles on urban park design, and his current research field of a smart park against climate change thru AI, Big Data from smart city, shows his awareness and dedication to using technology to address important environmental issues in a smart city.

He has worked in various industries, including electronics and semiconductors for MicroMicroChips, MediaTek, STMicroelectronics, LSI Logic, Samsung Electronics, and Daewoo Electronics, as well as in autonomous vehicles for HomenCar and AI data analysis for climate change for Airple Carbon Lab. He has held leadership positions in several companies, including MicroMicroChips, HomenCar and MediaTek. He is also an accomplished inventor and has been awarded multiple patents for his innovative ideas.

For more info about him pls visit http://www.linkedin.com/in/kwontaev 

Dr. Patrick L. Osewe is the Chief of the Health Sector Group at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He provides leadership on policy, technical, and operational matters. In close collaboration with the Sector Committee, he leads the application of evidence based and innovative approaches to address priority and emerging health issues in Asia and the Pacific. Since the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Patrick has provided leadership and guidance in the implementation of ADB’s $20 billion commitment to respond to COVID-19 and $9 billion for Developing Member Countries (DMCs) to obtain and deploy COVID-19 vaccines. His work related to COVID-19 includes providing technical assistance to operational teams and DMCs, convening global partners to reach consensus on key implementation issues, prioritizing investments, and mobilizing leading vaccine manufacturers and other private sector firms to support a range of preparedness and response activities throughout the region.  He is also involved in high level discussions with Ministers of Finance, Ministers of Health and other national leaders on how to accelerate progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). 

Patrick has led major global and regional multi-sectoral efforts to address health challenges and brings significant experience working with the private sector. He has over 25 years of experience as a global leader in health, including having previously worked for USAID and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as providing technical support to developing member countries in different parts of the world. Patrick holds an MD from the University of Nairobi, a Master’s in Public Health from the Harvard University and an MBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology.

Antti Niemelä is a Finnish diplomat specializing in technology and trade. His experience covers policy, bilateral relations, and business promotion – in all six inhabited continents.

Since August 2022 Antti serves as Deputy Head of Mission at Embassy of Finland to Republic of Korea. He is also Minister Counselor and Head of Economic and Trade affairs.

Antti has special emphasis on new technologies, having especially worked with 5G/6G, quantum, space, and trustworthy AI.

Prior to Korea Antti served as Minister Counselor and the Head of Section for Sustainable Growth and Commerce of the Finnish Embassy to the United States. In this role, Antti led a team dedicated to advance Finnish technology, trade, and climate policy goals, and promote collaboration between the United States and Finland in different sectors of economic activity.

Since joining the Finnish Foreign Service in 2010, Antti has served in several trade related roles, most notably as the Editor-in-Chief of Kauppapolitiikka (Trade Policy) Magazine and as Deputy Head of Mission in Australia and in Thailand.

Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Antti worked in private sector as senior lobbyist, journalist, and entrepreneur, mostly in South Korea. He specialized in free trade agreements, ICT, and financial services, and was founding partner of a Korean–Finnish technology trading company, which specialized in introducing environmentally friendly solutions between Nordic and Korean markets. He has also served in the Boards of Finnish Chambers of Commerce in Australia, Thailand, and United States (Washington). Antti started his career as a sports journalist.

Antti has three Master’s Degrees on different fields, including an Executive MBA.

Marti Mätas is the Deputy Head of the Embassy of Estonia in Beijing, People’s Republic of China.

Before starting his mission in Beijing in August 2023, he was working as the Deputy Head of the Embassy of Estonia in Seoul where his duties include scientific and technological cooperation with the Republic of Korea, as well as economic and political affairs. Marti came to Korea in 2020 to establish the Estonian Embassy and take cooperation between the two countries to a new level.

Before starting his diplomatic career in the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Marti served as a Counsellor for International Cooperation and Trade in the Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications that is responsible for the digital development of Estonia and e-government services. He was responsible for developing relations with the countries interested in learning from Estonia’s experience in the field of digital and e-government. During the Estonia’s EU Council Presidency Marti worked in the Estonian Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels, chairing EU Council working groups dealing with trade issues. Before becoming a civil servant, Marti worked more than 10 years in the private sector, coordinating for five years the European Union policy and international affairs in the Estonian Railways, national railway company of Estonia.

Head of Science and Technology Office at the Embassy of Switzerland in Seoul and part of Swissnex since August 2017, Alessandra Apicella has been interested in international scientific cooperation since the beginning of her studies in Physics. She developed her master project in the field of soft matter at Institut de Nanoscience de Paris and obtained a PhD in Materials Engineering from Politecnico di Milano. Her research in the field of physical changes in proteins triggering neurodegenerative diseases and influencing was partially developed at the Institute of Nanoscience for Nanomedicine of the University of Oxford.

Her multidisciplinary background in physics and materials science applied to biology led her to Switzerland where she developed a joint research between Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (EPFL) and Straumann AG on the regeneration of dental tissues.

Following the research experience, while working at the interface between public and private research connecting academia and industry, Alessandra developed a certain interest in the open innovation model. For this reason, as accomplishment of her CV, she attended an advanced Master in Management of Research, Innovation and Technology at the Business School of Politecnico di Milano (MIP) and focused her project work on models of interaction between public and private sectors in research field. Swiss mindset and Italian soul, Alessandra loves photography, outdoor activities and travelling as well as spending time at home in company of good food, wine and, of course, friends.

Lyse Langlois is general director of the International Observatory on the societal impacts of AI and digital technology in Quebec, Canada (https://observatoire-ia.ulaval.ca/en/) and a member of the team of international researchers leading an assessment process for Trustworthy AI, called Z-Inspection®.

She is a Professor in the Department of Industrial Relations at Laval University (www.ulaval.ca) and she has completed a Postdoctoral Fellow on ehical decision-making with R Starrat and P Begley (Boston College and Penn State) She was vice-dean of reseach Faculty of social sciences, Laval University and also director of the Institute of Applied Ethics at Laval University during 8 years.

Professor Langlois is also a regular researcher at the Interuniversity Research Center on Globalization and Work. (www.crimt.org) She received the Willower Award of Excellence in Fall 2018 (USA) for her exceptional nature of contribution which allowed to better understand the theoretical and practical aspects of ethics. Actually professor Langlois is a member of the expert committee mandated by the Quebec government on cybersecurity and digitalism, governance and innovation. She was also invited by UN University Centre for Policy Research regarding the Global Architecture of AI. She is a member at the Board of director of the international center of expertise in Montreal on AI. She collaborates with several international research groups on the impact of AI and digital technology.

Her research and teaching interests broadly include AI ethics, institutionalization of ethics, professionalism (ethical competency) and citizen deliberative processes.

Currently serving as the Deputy Director at the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy in Korea, Young Lo Ko has been responsible for bilateral and multilateral negotiations of service and investment, Technical barriers to Trade (TBT) and digital trade agreements. Prior to this, he served as a legal specialist at the Ministry of Justice (MOJ), where he provided expert legal advice on international trade law and public international law. While at the MOJ, he also served as a member of Korea’s Official Pool of International Economists at the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, specializing in trade in services and investment

In addition to his professional roles, Young Lo Ko is an academic author, with publications pertaining to trade in services and investment and EU laws in leading journals and books, such as the 'Journal of World Trade', 'Asia Pacific Law Review'. 

He earned his LLM from the London School of Economics in the UK and holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from Sungkyunkwan University in Korea. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), with a focus on intellectual property law and digital trade law. 

Gianluca Misuraca is founder and Vice President on Technology Diplomacy and International Relations of Inspiring Futures (IF), a global consultancy network with headquarters in Lausanne and Seville, which provides strategic advisory services to several International Organizations and public and private institutions worldwide.

Among his key assignments he is currently leading, on behalf of the European Commission’s Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI), the “International Outreach for human-centric Artificial Intelligence” (InTouchAI.eu) initiative; and he is the Team Leader and Project’s Coordinator of the “Digital Partnerships in Action” (DPA) facility support to assist the implementation of the Digital Partnership Agreement of the EU with Japan, the Republic of Korea and Singapore.

As part of his academic roles, Gianluca is the Executive Director of the Master on Artificial Intelligence in public services (AI4GOV) led by the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the Department of Design of Politecnico di Milano. Previously, Gianluca was a Senior Scientist at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre where, from 2009 to 2020, he was leading research and policy support in the field of Digital Governance, Social Innovation and Artificial Intelligence.

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