Kim Jong-Hwan

Who is Kim Jong-Hwan?

Kim, Jong-Hwan is a pioneer in the field of Ubiquitous Robotics and Soccer Robotics, nominated as the Father of Robot Football,. Micro-Robot World Cup Soccer Tournament was his brainchild in October 1995. He is the Founder of FIRA in June 1997 and IROC in October 1998. He is the President of FIRA, of IROC, and of the Korea Robot Soccer Association, and Honorary President of the China Robot Soccer Association. He was Organizing Chair of 96, 97 MiroSot Korea, 98 FIRA Robot World Cup France, 99 Brazil, and 99 Robot Olympiad Korea.

His research interests are in the areas of Evolutionary Multi-agent Robotic Systems. Some of the Robotic projects born out of his lab include the small sized humanoid Hansaram and the artificial creature Rity. He has coined the terms "Ubiquitous Robotics" and "Genetic Robot", with the latter being the result of path-breaking research work incorporating artificial chromosomes into a Robot thereby investigating the Origin of the Artificial Species.

He is the Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, and of the International Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, and was a Member of the Editorial Board of the Korea Fuzzy and Intelligent Systems society. He was the Guest Editor of the special issue on MiroSot'96 of the Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems and of the special issue on Soccer Robotics of the Journal of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing. He is one of the co-founders of Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning and was Organizing Chair and Program Co-chair of SEAL'96 and Program Co-chair of SEAL98 and 2000. He was General Chair of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2001.