Park Sukyung
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Park Sukyung | |
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| 박수경 | |
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| Advisor to the President for Science and Technology | |
| In office 4 May 2020 – 9 May 2022 | |
| President | Moon Jae-in |
| Preceded by | Lee Kong-joo |
| Succeeded by | Cho Sung-kyung |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1973 (age 52–53) Seoul, South Korea |
| Alma mater | KAIST University of Michigan |
Park Sukyung (Korean: 박수경; born 1973) is a South Korean professor of mechanical engineering at KAIST with expertise in Biomechanics[1][2] served as Science and Technology Advisor to President Moon Jae-in from 2020 to 2022.[3][4]
Park is the youngest person appointed by Moon to a vice-ministerial post[5] as well as the youngest senior member of the Office of the President.[6]
Park was the first female professor to join the faculty of mechanical engineering at KAIST[7] and the first student to graduate from Seoul Science High School in only two years.[2]
Park is a member of the KAIST board of trustees.[2] She was previously a senior researcher at the government-funded Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials and a member of the President's Advisory Council on Science and Technology.
Park holds three degrees in mechanical engineering - a bachelor's and master's from KAIST and a doctorate from the University of Michigan.[2][3]
