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Jaewan Kim is a professor at Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), studying quantum information science. He got his BS degree from Seoul National University majoring in Physics and PhD degree from the University of Houston, US, majoring in Physics. He served as the Leader of Computational Science Team at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, a Research Associate Professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and the Vice President/Acting President of KIAS. He chaired at International Conferences AQIS’08, ‘11 and APCWQIS’06, ‘13. His research is on quantum physics and its applications such as quantum chaos, quantum computation, quantum cryptography, and quantum teleportation. He is also interested in the connection between quantum physics and classical physics through decoherence.

As the director of Open KIAS Center, he arranges various outreach activities to promote the importance and excitement of science. He launched 'KIAS Pi-Day' for elementary school kids and the world's first “e-day e-time” to promote the importance of exponential function in 2011. “e-day e-time” for high school students begins on February 7 at 18:28 to commemorate e=2.71828... . He has been working to introduce the wisdom from natural science into various fields. He explained the “modesty” of science admitting its limit through the examples of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle in quantum physics, Goedel’s incompleteness theorem in mathematics, Unpredictability in chaos and nonlinear dynamics, and Arrow’s impossibility theorem in economics in the lecture “Homo Interactus.”