Executive Vice President / POSCO Low Carbon Process R&D Center
Dr. Kisoo Kim is responsible for POSCO Group R&D including steel manufacturing and innovative future technologies. He has worked on low carbon iron & steelmaking strategies such as FINEX and HyREX (Hydrogen Reduction) in order to achieve carbon neutrality. With his domain expertise, he has also tried to shift its focus from traditionally hardware-driven improvements to AI-based adaptive and self-learning smart technology in the steel works. He graduated from the Department of Metallurgical Engineering at Seoul National University and obtained a master’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering from POSTECH. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sheffield, UK. He has served as a researcher at the POSCO Technical Research Labs for 33 years.
