Il-Bum Kwon

Diector/Principal Research Scientist
Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science

Il-Bum Kwon received the Ph. D degree in Aerospace Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 1997. His research topic in KAIST was Strain measurement and failure detection of composite beams using fiber optic sensors. He is working as the director of Safety Measurement Institute in Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), Korea. His research area includes smart structures, and structural health monitoring using fiber optic sensors. Dr. Kwon is a member of SPIE and Optical Society of America. His major contributions to the communities is structural health monitoring using optical fiber sensors.