Kilnam Chon
Country: | Korea |
Email: | chon [at] cosmos.kaist.ac.kr |
LinkedIn: | Kilnam Chon |
Kilnam Chon is a Professor at Keio University. He also teaches at KAIST.
Education
Chon holds Ph.D and MS.c in Computer science, both from the University of Califonia, Los Angeles and a BS in Engineering Science from the Osaka University.
Career History
He started working as a System Engineer at Rockwell in the Late sixties. From 1976-1980, he worked as the member of the Technical Team of Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He then joined ETRI(formerly KIET) as a Principal Investigator.
Since 1982, Chon has been teaching at KAIST. In 2008, he taught at the Tsinghua University in Beijing as a Visiting Professor.
Membership
Since the early 80's, he has been working with network systems and internet. He has actively participated in groups like APNG, APAN and APTLD. Currently he Co-chairs Coordination Committee of Intercontinental Research Networking (CCIRN). He is the developer of the first Internet in Asia, which was called SDN.
- Chair of Internet Association of Korea, (2000 – Present)
- Chair of Korea Networking Council, (1985-1995)
- Chair of Asia pacific Networking Group, (1992-1995)
- Conference Organization Chair of KRNET
- Chair of Asia-Pacific Coordinating Committee on Intercontinental Research Networking
- Technical Advisory Group Member of Interop
- Chair of Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Name Forum, (1999-Present)
- Chair of Asia Pacific Advanced Network, (1997-Present)
- Co-chair of Coordinating Committee on Intercontinental Research Networking
In 2000, he founded Networking, Inc.