Yong-Hyuk Kim received a B.S. degree in Computer Science and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, South Korea, in 1999, 2001, and 2005, respectively. From 2005 to 2007, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at SNU and a Research Staff Member at the Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center at SNU. Since 2007, he has been a Professor in the School of Software at Kwangwoon University, Seoul. He was also a Visiting Researcher at the Forecast Research Laboratory of the National Institute of Meteorological Research, Seoul, in 2013. From 2021 to 2022, he was a Visiting Professor in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His current research interests include algorithm design and analysis, discrete mathematics, optimization theory, combinatorial optimization, evolutionary computation, operations research, data/web mining, machine learning, smart grids, and sensor networks. Dr. Kim served as an Editor for the KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems from 2010 to 2013. He was also a Lead Guest Editor for special issues in DDNS (2015–2016), Mathematics (2021), AIMS Mathematics (2024), and Discover Artificial Intelligence (2025). He has served as a Committee Member for GECCO in 2005, 2006, and 2013, and for IEEE CEC from 2009 to 2012.
