Keynote Speakers
EXPERTS
Prof. Jae K. Park
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Dr. Park is a professor of the Civil and
Environmental Engineering Department at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison since 1988. He received a B.S. in Civil
Engineering at Yonsei University in 1977 and a M.S. in Environmental
Engineering at Seoul National University in 1979. He worked as a
consulting engineer in Korea and Australia for two years after
serving two and a half years of military service. He received a
Ph.D. in Public Health Engineering at the University of Newcastle
upon Tyne, United Kingdom in 1985. He worked as a research associate
at the Sanitary and Environmental Health Research Laboratory,
University of California, Berkeley from 1985 to 1988.
Since he joined University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1988, he has
taught various environmental engineering courses such as water
treatment plant design, wastewater treatment plant design,
biological treatment, physical/chemical treatment, hazardous waste
management, solids and hazardous waste engineering, industrial water
pollution control, etc. His research is in the areas of water
quality management and river restoration; biological treatment;
hazardous waste treatment; mass transport in the environment; fate
of organic compounds in water and wastewater treatment processes;
computer-aided design of water and wastewater treatment plants; and
reuse of scrap vehicle tires as a contaminant sorbent. His research
was supported by the National Science Foundation, the Department of
Defense, municipalities, private industries, Wisconsin Department of
Transportation, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and
various research institutes. He has served as the consultant of
various governments, research institutes, utilities, universities,
and industries all over the world.
Prof. Jinkeun Kim
Jeju National University, Jeju, Korea
Academic Background
1987.3-1991.1 Univ. of Seoul. Dept. of Environmental Engineering.
B.S.
1991.3-1994.2 Seoul National Univ. Dept. of Environmental Health.
M.S.
2000.8-2004.5 Univ. of Texas at Austin. Dept. of Civil,
Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D. (Thesis:
Physicochemical aspects of particle breakthrough in porous media
filtration)
Working Experiences
1991.3-2011.2: K-water (Korea Water Resources Corp.), Senior
Researcher
2011.3-present: Jeju National University
