Chinese Academy of Engineering Selects Korea Academy of Engineering Members Kim Ki-nam and Lee Sang-yup as Foreign Members... First Korean Case

Korean Academy of Engineering "Will Achieve Cooperation Results Through Academic Exchange in Engineering Technology Field"

Kim Ki-nam, President of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (Chairman of Samsung Electronics SAIT), and Lee Sang-yup, Vice President (Vice President for Research at KAIST), have been elected as foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). This is the first case for Koreans.

The Chinese Academy of Engineering announced on the 23rd that it had selected 16 foreign members, including President Kim Ki-nam and Vice President Lee Sang-yup, after an internal review.

Chairman Kim Ki-nam (left) and Vice Chairman Lee Sang-yeop of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea /
[Photo by National Academy of Engineering of Korea]

President Kim is a global expert in next-generation memory semiconductors and system semiconductor processes and design. He is recognized for innovating memory technology by introducing 10-nanometer-class DRAM and 3D-structured V-NAND that overcame the limits of fine processes. He is acknowledged as a global leader in the semiconductor field, having served as a foreign member of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and the US National Academy of Engineering.

Vice President Lee Sang-yup is a leading scholar in biotechnology who founded systems metabolic engineering. He is credited with developing numerous core technologies and several world-first and highest-performance bioprocesses, contributing to the advancement of the global biochemical industry. He has been selected as a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and the US National Academy of Sciences, and was the first Korean to be named a member of the Royal Society (UK).

The Chinese Academy of Engineering, established in 1994, is the highest academic institution in China's engineering and technology sector. It not only proposes national basic strategies related to engineering and technology but also serves as an advisory body to the Chinese Communist Party on engineering and technology research and national economic and social development plans. Among China's 1.4 billion population, only about 1,300 have been appointed as academicians of the CAE, of whom 111 are foreign members.

The National Academy of Engineering of Korea is a leading group representing Korea's engineering and technology sector, promoting excellent domestic engineering technologies and strengthening global networking through cooperation with major foreign engineering academies. Taking this election of foreign members to the CAE as an opportunity, the National Academy of Engineering of Korea stated that it "will create cooperative achievements through academic exchanges in engineering and technology between Korea and China."

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