Dr. Ik-Keun Park is currently serving as an Emeritus Chair Professor in the NDT Research Center at the Seoul National University of Science and Technology(SeoulTech). Prof. Park served as the President of KSNT(Korea Society for Nondestructive Testing) and the Chair and Co-Chair of 20th WCNDT and was leading high-tech NDT R&D projects in Korea.Recently, he has been serving as a regional director for APFNDT(Asia Pacific Federation for Nondestructive Testing).

His B.S and M.S degree is in Mechanical Engineering from Hanyang University. He completed his PhD in Precision Mechanical Engineering from Hanyang University, South Korea, in 1991, and joined the Ultrasonics Research and Development Lab. at PennState University in USA. His major field of research is the materials characterization and structural health monitoring with ultrasonic Non-destructive evaluation, and recently he has been very interested in the development of simulation-based phased array UT(PAUT) demonstration technology