Dr. Jeom Kee Paik
ProfessorPusan National University, South Korea
Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Engineering from Osaka University, Japan
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Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Engineering from Osaka University, Japan
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Dr. Jeom Kee Paik is a Professor of the Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering at Pusan National University (PNU) in Korea. In 2012, he received a Doctor Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctor) from the University of Liege in Belgium. His research interests are Safety Studies and design of ships and offshore structures associated with extreme and accidental conditions. He is currently In Charge of a government-funded project with the budget of approx. 100MUSD for building test infrastructures associated with safety studies of ships and offshore structures in extreme and accidental conditions as well as normal conditions. He is a fellow and Vice President of the U.S. Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME), and a fellow and council member of the U.K. Royal Institution of Naval Architects. Prof. Paik serves as President of the Korea Ship and Offshore Research Institute (KOSORI) and as Director of the Lloyd’s Register Foundation Research Centre of Excellence at PNU. He is Chairman of the Korean Shipbuilding Advisory Committee of Registro Italiano Navale, the Korea Technical Committee of ClassNK, and the Forum for Safety of Fire and Explosion. He had been Chairman of numerous technical committees of International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC) for 12 years in ship collision and grounding, condition assessment of aged ships, and ultimate strength, and he is now a standing committee member of ISSC. He is a member of the Academic Advisory Council for Universiti Technologi PETRONAS (UTP) in Malaysia. Prof. Paik has received numerous awards and honors. Recently, he has been selected as a winner of the William Froude Medal of the U.K. Royal Institution of Naval Architects to be receiving in April 2015. He is the third person who receives both the David W. Taylor Medal and the William Froude Medal which are the two most prestigious medals in the world of naval architecture and offshore engineering, after Prof. Emeritus John B. Caldwell of Newcastle University in UK and late Prof. Douglas Faulkner of Glasgow University in UK. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Ships and Offshore Structures, which is an SCIE indexed peer-reviewed international journal. He has been an author or co-author of over 500 articles including some 250 SCI/SCIE papers, of 10 books or book chapters, and of over 40 patents. His SCI or SCIE papers have so far been quoted over 1,000 times in SCI/SCIE international journal papers by other researchers. He has taught 105 Master students and 31 PhD students under his supervision.