Keun Ho Ryu is a professor at Chungbuk National University in Korea and a leader of the group database and bioinformatics laboratory as well as a vice president of the Personalized Medicine Tumor Engineering Research Center. He received a BS degree from Soongsil University in 1976 and an MS and a Ph.D from Yonsei University, Korea, in 1980 and 1988 respectively. He worked not only at the University of Arizona as a post-doc and research scientist but also at ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute), Korea. He has served on numerous international journal reviewers and program committees including the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), the Very Large Data Base (VLDB), and so on. He is a member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM since 1983. He has served on numerous program committees, including roles as the Demonstration Co-Chair for the VLDB, the Panel Co-Chair and the Tutorial Co-Chair for the APWeb, and the FITAT General Co-Chair. In 2008, he founded the FITAT International Group, to provide a professional community the opportunities, for publications, knowledge exchange, teaming, and cooperation. His research interests include temporal databases, spatiotemporal databases, stream data processing, knowledgebase information, security, data mining, bioinformatics, and biomedical informatics.
