Current Position

• Professor of Industrial Engineering at Pusan National University
• Adjunct Professor of Graduate School of Data Science
• Vice president of Korean Society for Quality Management (KSQM)

Fields of Interest

• Supply Chain Design: Distance-based SCD, Location-driven SCD.
• Robustness: De-noising, Model departure, Robust SCD.
• Engineering: Cracking of materials, Cumulative damage.
• Applied Statistics: Minimum distance method, Reliability, Quality control.

Work Experience

• Board of Directors of Korean Society for Quality Management
• Chair of Industrial Engineering at Pusan National University (2017 - 2019)
• Full Professor with tenure in Department of Industrial Engineering at Pusan National University (2015 - )
• CUSG Outstanding Professor recognized by Clemson University Student Government
• Assistant / Associate / Tenure-granted Professor of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Clemson University (2001 - 2015)

Education

• Ph.D in Statistics, Pennsylvania State University
• M.S. in Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University

Biography

After graduating from Yoido High School in Seoul, he began his undergraduate studies in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Seoul National University. Under the mentorship of the late Professor Taik Sik Lee (南軒 李澤植), he earned a B.S. degree in February 1987. He subsequently pursued graduate studies, obtaining an M.A. in Mathematics under the supervision of Professor Ayanendranath Basu at the University of Texas at Austin. He completed his Doctorate in Statistics at Pennsylvania State University under the guidance of the late Professor Bruce G. Lindsay.

Dr. Park is currently a tenured full professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Pusan National University (부산대학교 산업공학과), Busan, South Korea. He also serves as the Director of the Applied Statistics Laboratory (응용통계연구실), where he leads the applied statistics research group, teaches a variety of statistics courses, and conducts research in areas such as quality and reliability engineering, competing risks models, robust inference, and solid mechanics. From 2017 to 2019, he served as the Chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering at Pusan National University.

Prior to joining Pusan National University, Dr. Park was a faculty member in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Clemson University, South Carolina, USA, from 2001 to 2015. He was appointed as an assistant professor on August 15, 2001, and was promoted to tenured associate professor on August 15, 2007.

Dr. Park has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Probability and Statistics and the International Journal of Quality Engineering and Technology. His research interests encompass engineering statistics, robust inference, reliability, competing risks models, statistical computing and simulation, acoustics, and solid mechanics.

In addition to his academic achievements, Dr. Park holds two patents and is the author of Statistical Inference: The Minimum Distance Approach (Chapman & Hall), which he dedicated to the late Professor Byung Ho LEE (響堂 李炳昊) of Nuclear Engineering at Seoul National University.