Biography
Man-Sung Yim is a Professor of the Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, Director of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Education and Research Center (NEREC), and Associate Vice President of the International Office at KAIST. Formerly, he worked at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute and taught at North Carolina State University and MIT. He is currently a member of the Korean National Academy of Engineering, the Scientific Program Committee of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), and serves as Associate Editor (Asia) of Nuclear Technology for the American Nuclear Society, and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Progress in Nuclear Energy and International Journal of Nuclear Security. His work centers around the theme of safe and responsible use of nuclear energy. Dr. Yim studied at Seoul National University (BS/MS), the University of Cincinnati (PhD), and Harvard University (SM/ScD).