Gender Summit Asia Pacific 2015, Seoul, August 27, 2015Dr. Sungwan Kim •2015- : Director, National Research Foundation (NRF) •2010- : Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Eng., Seoul

Gender Summit Asia Pacific 2015, Seoul, August 27, 2015

Dr. Sungwan Kim • 2015- : Director, National Research Foundation (NRF)

• 2010- : Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Eng., Seoul National University (SNU)

• 2000-2011: Sr. Research Engineer, NASA LaRC – LaRC CEV VI GN&C Deputy Lead and as an Entry Team Lead

– System Identification and Mathematical Modeling: Failure Detection & Identification (FDI)

– Led LaRC X-37 GN&C and Aeroscience Team

• 1997-2000: The Boeing Company - Boeing Space & Communications, California – Principal Engineer/Scientist, GN&C IPT Lead

– Advanced Guidance & Control Algorithms, Intelligent/Reconfigurable FCS

– Space Shuttle Entry FCS Design and Analysis

• 1994-1997: Lear Astronics Corporation (now British Aerospace Corp.), California – Senior Project Manager for KTX-2 / T-50

– Aircraft FCS Design & Analysis and Integrated INS / GPS System

• Ph.D. (1993): Electrical Engineering (Control Systems), UCLA

• MS (1987): Biomedical Eng. and Control & Instrumentation Eng., SNU

• BS (1985): Electronics Engineering, SNU

• Others – U.S. Patents: Artificial Heart Control System & Five for Medical Robot (Pending)

– 2001-: Associate Editor of IEEE Journal (Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME) & TCST)

– Associate Fellow of AIAA and Senior Member of IEEE

– Technical Committee Member of AIAA GN&C, IEEE CSS, and IFAC ACA

– Honors & Awards Committee Chair and Council Member, AIAA Hampton Roads Section

01. S&T at a Glance

Seoul in 1954 CheongGyeCheon (stream) Seoul in 2015 CheongGyeCheon (stream)

※ Source : Korean Statistical Information system

45.4 50.4

54

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Total R&D Investment

Total R&D Investment

Billion USD

USD in Billions

Total R&D Investment is continuously increased

Total R&D Investment (government & private sector) : 54.1B (billion) USD (2013)

Ratio (Percentage) of Government R&D to Total R&D investment : 28% (2013)

Ratio (Percentage) of Total R&D Investment to GDP : 4.15% (2013)

4.15

3.49 3.32 3.3 3.06 2.94 2.81

2.4 2.28 2.23

1.66 1.62 1.25

0.95

0

1

2

3

4

5

2013 Ratio of Total R&D Investment to GDP

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

18

20

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

*IMD: Int’l Institute for Mgmt Development IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook

Rank 1

Top-notch in the ICT field

02. NRF at a Glance

Seoul

Daejeon

China

Korea

Japan

150km

`

Europe (42 agencies in 24 countries)

`DFG, AvH, MPG, DAAD AFRC, ESRC, RS, BC EPSRC, BBSRC, CNRS IVA, STINT, VR, FNRS FWO-Vlaanderen CNR, SNSF, AF, SINTEF IIASA, FWF, CSIC, FORTH NOW, OTKA, HAS, HAE SPSC of RAS, RAS, PAS GACR, ASCR, SSF, NASU RA, SAS, TUBITAK

Africa (6 agencies in 5 countries)

ASRT, STDF, UNCST, COSTECH, CNRST, NRF

America (6 agencies in 6 countries)

NSF, NSERC, CONACYT CONICYT, CONICET, CNPq

Oceania (4 agencies in 2 countries AAS, ARC, ATSE, RSNZ

Asia (18 agencies in 10 countries)

JSPS, JST, NSFC, CAS, CASS CSTEC, ICSSR, INSA, NSC LIPI, NRCT, VASS, VAST, MOST MAS, NAST, NRCP, SCST

76 foreign Partner Organizations in 47 countries

As of March 2015, the NRF has a total workforce of 530

Office of

Inspector General

Office of R&D Performance Development

Board of Directors Inspector General

Director General

Office of Planning and Cooperation

Directorate for

Humanities and

Social Sciences

Directorate for

Basic Research

in Science and

Engineering

Center for

International

Affairs

Directorate for

National Science

and Engineering

Programs

Directorate for

Strategic

Resources

Management

Directorate for

Academic

Promotion

2015 NRF Budget

16.7 billion USD

G O V E R N M E N T

3.7 billion USD N R F

Basic Research,

756 million, 21%

Promising Future

Fundamental

Technology

Development,

533 million, 14%

Promotion and Safety

of Nuclear Energy,

293 million, 8%

Promotion of

Aerosapce

Development,

366 million, 10%

University Education

Capacity Enhancement

and Talent Cultivation,

899 million, 24%

Academic Research

Capacity Enhancement,

569 million, 15%

Promoting Research

Activities & Buliding a

Foundation for

Research, 198 million,

5%

International

Cooperation,

100 million, 3%

2015 Budget : 3,699

Million USD

TOTAL 3,699

(Million USD)

03. Evaluation and Management

System of NRF

PM

Manage the entire cycle of R&D program management:

planning, evaluation, and outcomes management

Coordinate the evaluation committee

Expertise

Contract

PMs for each discipline

Full-time PM, Part-time

PM

Applications of Differentiated Evaluation Indicators by different fields

Selection Evaluation

Indicator of creativity & challenge : expansion up to 50~80%

Degree of research objective achievement: more than 70%

Qualitative evaluation indicators

Standard Impact or Impact factor , Patent Value

Engineering Fee, level of technology

Increase in Qualitative Evaluation Indicators

Enlargement of foreign reviewers pool composed of foreign excellent reviewers

who are high-ranked researchers, journal editors, paper reviewers, and so on

2013 2014

1,500 reviewers

Cooperation with overseas professional organization

like EU-ERC(European Research Council) which is operating a world reviewers pool

Pilot application in Programs like Leading Researcher Program, Global Research

Lab Program oriented to world-class research

More than 2,000 reviewers

04. Future Challenges

• Until 2014

– Most Pre-Clinical and/or Clinical Evaluation Has Been

Conducted with Limited Resources

• Clinical Evaluation: With 20~30 Year Old Male

• Pre-Clinical Evaluation: With Male Mouse

– Why: Cost-effective & Convenience

– Issues: Research Outcomes Might Be Less Effective and

Might Not Predict Side-Effective Properly

• Human Physiology is Highly Diverse

• Procedures or Medications May Not Be Adequate for Infant/Kids,

Senior Folks, or Female

• Today & Beyond

– Evaluations Are Suggested to Be Conducted Widely to

Cover Almost All the Situations

NIH Initiative by McCullough

Women’s Health Initiative (WHI)

The New York Times’ Article

dated on 7/18/2015

Professor Londa Schiebinger

John L. Hinds Professor of the History

of Science, Stanford University

dated on 7/25/2015(?)

Rapportian’ s Article dated on

7/23/2015

• Pre-clinical Evaluation Also Considering Female Mouse

• Clinical Evaluations with Diverse Groups

– Male + Kids + Senior + Female

• Experiments under Micro-gravity for Trip to Space

By courtesy of NASA Website

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/sep/HQ_09-203_ISS_Science_Report.html

• Big Issue is the ‘Cost’

• NRF Has Allocated Budget for Pre-clinical Evaluation

when Considering Female Mouse

• NRF is Planning to Periodically Monitor Gender-Based

Research

Back-up

General/Young Researcher Program Funded Fields Funded Period Budget

Science and engineering

3 years USD 45.5 Thousand per project

Eligibility Program Description

Researchers in universities, Researchers in public and private institutes

Fundamental Research Young Researchers Female Scientists Scientists in Local Universities

Mid-Career Researcher Program Funded Fields Funded Period Budget


3 years USD 90~180 Thousand per project

(Core Research), USD 270 Thousand

per project (National Research Lab)


Researchers in universities researchers in public and private institutes

Core Research National Research Lab

Advanced Research Center Program Funded

Fields Eligibility Budget Funded

Period

Science / Engineering Research Center (S/ERC)

Universities with master’s and doctoral programs in science and engineering

USD 1,.15 ~

1.35 Million per project

7years

Medical Research Center (MRC)

Medical, oriental medical and dental universities with programs in basic medical science

USD 600 ~

900 Thousand per project

7years

National Core Research Center (NCRC)

Universities with master’s and doctoral programs in science and Engineering

USD 1.8 Million per project

7years

Leading Researcher Program Funded Fields Funded Period Budget


9 years (Creative Research)

USD 450~720 Thousand per project

(Creative Research)


Researchers in universities researchers in public and private institutes

Creative Research

Funded Fields Funded Period Budget

Humanities and Social Sciences

1~9 years USD 10~180 Thousand per project


Researchers in universities and institutes / Professors appointed less than 5 years / Professors with at least 10 years of demonstrating research outcomes

Enhancing research ability for next-generation academic researchers/ Promoting top-level creative research ability / Producing creative knowledge through support for joint research / Specialization of research centers in universities


Humanities and overseas regional

research

10 years(HK) 2 years(Popularization) 3 years(Literary Work)

USD 270~1,350 Thousand(HK) USD 27 Thousand(Popularization of Humanities, Literary Work)


Institutes and researchers in the fields of Humanities and overseas regional research

Establishing institutes focusing on Humanities Lectures weekly magazines on Humanities for the general public Providing long-term support for Humanities researchers


Social Sciences Within 10 years (3+3+4 years)

Within USD 90~540 Thousand per project


Teams of Researchers belonging to domestic universities or academic research institutes

Strengthening academic abilities in the field of Social Sciences through systematic support for world-class social science research groups and next-generation human resources


Humanities, Social Sciences, the Arts, Physical education

1 year

Total USD 630 Thousand per project

(Korean Research Memory)


Institutes annexed to universities, and non-profit research organizations

Building databases for research in Humanities, Social Sciences, the Arts and Sports

Humanities and Social Sciences Basic Research Program Promotion of Humanities Program

Social Sciences Research Support Program

Joint Management System for Academic Resources Program


Future nuclear reactor system etc.

5 years (3+2 years)

Total USD 125.6 Million


Universities, research institutes, companies

Design technology for 4th- generation nuclear energy systems Nuclear safety technology research etc.


Establishment & operation of re-search facilities

1 ~ 6 years Total USD 19.5 Million



Expansion of facilities and equipment for R&D which are necessary for performing nuclear energy R&D, and joint utilization of large-scale nuclear energy research facilities etc.


Radiation fusion, medical

technology etc.

5 years (3+2 years)




Development of radiation fusion & medical technologies which use radiation and radioactive isotopes etc.


Advancement of Korea-US nuclear

cooperation

5 years (3+2 years)




Participating in joint research with advanced countries to secure future nuclear technology etc.

Nuclear Energy Development Program

Nuclear Energy Infrastructure Program

Radiation Technology Development Program

International Cooperation Program for Nuclear Energy


Science and technology

6 years Up to USD 450 Thousand per project


Research lab in universities, Research lab in public and private institutes

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1~3 years Total USD 12 Million


Universities, Research institutes

Bilateral/multilateral cooperation



1996 ~ Total USD 373 Thousand


Researchers in universities Korea-USA Cooperation Program

Global Research Laboratory Program

International Funds for S&T

Construction of Int’l Research Infrastructure


Strategic technologies deemed nationally

beneficial

6 years USD 540 Thousand per project


Universities and research institutions -

Global Research Development Center


All field 1 to 3 years Up to USD 90 Thousand per project


Researchers in universities -

Global Research Network Program


All academic fields 2 years USD 27 Thousand per project


Researchers in universities Bilateral/multilateral cooperation

Research Exchange Program

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Gender Summit Asia Pacific 2015, Seoul, August 27, 2015Dr. Sungwan Kim •2015- : Director, National Research Foundation (NRF) •2010- : Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Eng., Seoul