Mr. Yong-Kee Jun received the BS degree in Computer Engineering from Kyungpook National University (KNU), and the MS and PhD degree in Computer Science from Seoul National University (SNU). He was a research associate in Computer Science at Univ. of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), and a research staff in Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI).
Dr. Jun is now a full professor of Gyeongsang National University (GNU) where he had served as the founding professor of Dept. of Informatics, the vice-dean of Academic Affairs (2003-2005), the first director of GNU Research Institute of Computer and Information Communication (RICIC), the first operating director of GNU Virtual College of which system platform was developed by his team, and the director of GNU Embedded Software Center for Avionics (GESCA) which is a national IT Research Center (ITRC) of South Korea. Currently he is the director of GNU Campus IT Services (CIS), the director of Korea Cyber Education Center of Information Security (CECIS), and the director of Korea e-Learning Support Center at Gyeongnam Province (eLSC-GP).
As a scholar, he has produced some publications developed by his professional interests including parallel/distributed computing, embedded systems, and systems software. His research has focused primarily on dependability of concurrent software, and proudly produced eleven brilliant doctorates including Dr. Dong-Gook Kim (Meritech Co., Ltd.), Dr. Young-Cheol Kim (Int'l Univ. of Korea), Dr. Hee-Dong Park (Joong-Bu Univ.), Dr. Jeong-Si Kim (ETRI), Dr. So-Hee Park (JNU of Education), Dr. Mi-Young Park (Donga Univ.), Dr. Young-Joo Kim (ETRI), Dr. Byung-Chul Kim (STX), Dr. Moon-Hye Kang (GNU), Dr. Ok-Kyoon Ha (GNU), and Dr. Guy Martin Tchamgoue (University of Waterloo).
Prof. Jun is a member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since 1994 and IEEE Computer Society since 1982. Domestically, he is involved in two technical societies: a life member of Korea Information Science Society (KIISE) as a director of the 17-th executive board and the 13-th chair of KISS Youngnam Regional Society; a life member of Korea Information Processing Society (KIPS) as a vice president of the 8-th executive board and the first chair of KIPS Youngnam Regional Society. He is also listed in Who's Who in the World since the 21st edition, 2004.