Byoung Yoon Kim is currently the founding director of Institute for Startup KAIST and Professor of Physics at KAIST where he also served as Vice President of Research. He previously held a faculty position at and earned his PhD in applied physics from Stanford University. His research focus is fiber optics, and he founded FiberPro and Novera Optics. He is a Fellow of IEEE, OSA, Optical Society of Korea, and Institute of Physics, and a member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology.