Professor Won-Kwang Park of the Department of Information Security and Cryptography at Kookmin University (President Jeong Seung Ryul has been named to the “Top 2% of the World's Top Researchers” list published by Elsevier and Stanford University's Professor John Ronnidis.

Professor Park's research focuses on theoretically analyzing the mathematical structure of algorithms used in backscattering problems and microwave imaging, and applying them to real-world problems. His research focuses on understanding the fundamental properties of the algorithms, developing mathematical theories to prove their uniqueness for foreign object detection, and improving the performance of the algorithms.

The World's Top 2% list is compiled by Elsevier, a global scholarly information analytics company, and Professor John P. A. Ioannidis of Stanford University in the United States, based on the impact of researchers around the world who have published at least five papers in 22 scientific disciplines and 174 sub-disciplines, as calculated from a database provided by SCOPUS, Elsevier's indexing and citation database.

“I am honored to be among the top 2% of researchers in the world, and I am grateful to my advisors and fellow researchers who have provided me with a lot of help and advice during my research,” said Professor Park. “I will continue to contribute to the development of science and technology and related research fields by conducting meaningful research.”

Meanwhile, Professor Park was selected as one of the 50 Best Academic and Research Support Projects of the Ministry of Education in 2020 in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the field of backscattering problems and microwave imaging, and is currently conducting research on the mathematical analysis of non-recurrent algorithms for practical microwave imaging with the support of the National Research Foundation of Korea.