Park Sukyung

Park Sukyung (Korean: 박수경; born 1973) is a South Korean professor of mechanical engineering at KAIST with expertise in Biomechanics[1][2] served as Science and Technology Advisor to President Moon Jae-in from 2020 to 2022.

[6] Park was the first female professor to join the faculty of mechanical engineering at KAIST[7] and the first student to graduate from Seoul Science High School in only two years.

[2] Park is a member of the KAIST board of trustees.

[2] She was previously a senior researcher at the government-funded Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials and a member of the President's Advisory Council on Science and Technology.

Park holds three degrees in mechanical engineering - a bachelor's and master's from KAIST and a doctorate from the University of Michigan.