Geun-Tae Yim

Director of MASS Remote Control Center, Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering

Dr. Geun-Tae Yim was educated as naval architect and has been working in the field of ship hydrodynamics as a researcher in KRISO for decades. He participated in the KASS (Korea Autonomous Surface Ship) project at planning stage and has been in charge of one of KASS projects titled as ‘Development of evaluation and validation testbed for autonomous ship technology’.

He holds a position as director of ASVERC (Autonomous Ship Verification & Evaluation Research Centre) since new organisation was set in April 2022. Currently he is working on various scenario-based MASS sea-trials and centre’ functionality expansion.