Jong-Hwan Kim received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics Engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1981, 1983, and 1987, respectively.

From 1984 to 1988, he was a Research Assistant in the Department of Electronics Engineering at Seoul National University. Since 1988, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), where he is currently a Professor. He was a Visiting Scholar at Purdue University from September 1992 to August 1993. His research interests are in the areas of Evolutionary Multi-agent Robotic Systems. He has published more than 200 International Journal/Conference papers.

He is the Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, and of the International Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, and was a Member of the Editorial Board of the Korea Fuzzy and Intelligent Systems society. He is one of the co-founders of Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL) and was the Organizing Chair and the Program Co-chair of SEAL'96 and the Program Co-chair of SEAL’98. He is the General Chair of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation’2001.

His name is included in Marquis' "Who's Who in the World", in its ’98, ’99 and 2000 editions as the Founder of MiroSot (Micro-Robot World Cup Soccer Tournament) and of the FIRA (Federation of International Robot-soccer Association). He is now serving FIRA as Executive President. He was the Guest Editor of the special issue on MiroSot'96 of the Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems and of the special issue on Soccer Robotics of the Journal of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing.

He is a member of IEEE, KITE, KIEE, KCAS, a research member of CIET, and a research member of ERC-ACI.

Dr. Kim is the recipient of the 1988 Choongang Young Investigator Award from Choongang Memorial Foundation, the LG YonAm Foundation Research Fellowship in 1992 and the Korean Presidential Award in 1997.