Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association

Dr. Marye Anne Fox,
the 7 th Chancellor of
the University of
California, San Diego,
is a world-renowned
physical organic
chemist, whose work has
influenced mechanistic chemistry, materials
science, and solar energy conversion. An
elected member of the National Academy of
Sciences, Fox also advises on US policy on
science and education. She has served as a
vice chair of the US National Science Board
and currently serves as a member of President
Bush's Council of Advisors on Science and
Technology. She will speak during the banquet
on Friday, August 15, 2008.
Dr. Suh, Sang-Kee is a
congressman of the Korean
National Assembly and the
President of the Assembly
Digital Forum. He has a Ph.D.
Degree from Drexel University.
He was a senior researcher at
Ford Motors, the President of Korea Institute of
Machinery and Materials, a professor of Hoseo
University, and a member of the Assembly
Science, Technology and Information
Committee. He will speak during a plenary
session on Friday, August 15, 2008.
Fran Allen is an IBM
Fellow Emerita at the T.
J. Watson Research
Laboratory with a
specialty in compilers
and program optimization
for high performance
computers.
This work led to Fran being named the recipient
of ACM’s 2006 Turing Award. She is a
member of the American Philosophical Society
and the National Academy of Engineers, and is
a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, ACM, IEEE, and the Computer
History Museum. She has served on numerous
national technology boards and holds several
honorary doctorates.
Dr. Sunggi Baik is the
President of Pohang
University of Science
and Technology. He
obtained his Ph.D. in
Materials Science from
Cornell University and
was a researcher at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory. Since he joined POSTECH, he has
held many senior positions including Vice-
President (1998-2000). He is a Fellow of
American Ceramic Society and member of
World Academy of Ceramics, and has received
numerous awards including Outstanding
Achievement Award and Best Publication
Award. He will speak during the banquet on
Saturday, August 16, 2008.
Dr. Efim Isaakovich
Zelmanov, a professor
of mathematics at
University of California,
San Diego, received
Fields Medal, the most
prestigious award for the
mathematicians, at the
International Congress of Mathematicians in
Zürich in 1994. He is known for his work on
combinatorial problems in non-associative
algebra and group theory. He was born in
Khabarovsk, Russia in 1955. He obtained
doctoral degree at Novosibirsk State University
in1980, and a higher degree at Leningrad State
University in 1985. He had a position in
Novosibirsk until 1987. In 1990, he moved to
the United States, becoming a professor at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was at the
University of Chicago in 1994/5, at Yale
University till 2002, then he moved to the
University of California, San Diego.
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