Oum Sang-il

Oum Sang-il (Korean: 엄상일; born 1976) is a Korean mathematician working in graph theory and discrete mathematics. He is a tenured professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at KAIST and the chief investigator of the Discrete Mathematics Group in the Pioneer Research Center for Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the Institute for Basic Science. He is known for his work on structural graph theory and in particular for structures and algorithms relating to rank-width, clique-width, and branch-width. He published more than 45 journal papers.

This is a Korean name; the family name is Oum.

Oum Sang-il
Born	1976 Yecheon County, North Gyeongsang Province
Nationality	South Korean
Alma mater	Princeton University, KAIST
Scientific career
Fields	Graph theory, discrete mathematics
Institutions	Georgia Tech, University of Waterloo, KAIST, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Institute for Basic Science
Thesis	Graphs of Bounded Rank-width (2005)
Doctoral advisor	Paul Seymour
Korean name
Hangul	엄상일
Revised Romanization	Ŏm Sangil
McCune–Reischauer	Eom Sangil
Website	Sang-il Oum (엄상일) - Discrete Mathematics Group

He won the Young Scientist Award from the South Korean government in 2012.[1] and the TJ Park Young Professor Fellowship[2] from the POSCO TJ Park Foundation in 2009. He has been an editor of the Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society since 2011 and a founding member of Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology.

He wrote a monthly pieces for the monthly magazine "Math Donga" (ko) for 4 years from 2016, sharing the latest research breakthroughs in mathematics.[3]

In the Korean Mathematical Society (ko), he was appointed twice (2011-2012, 2017-2018) as an executive member of the board of trustees in charge of the Korean Mathematical Olympiad. He was a member of the Korean Mathematical Olympiad Committee for 2011-2018 and was the deputy leader of the South Korean team at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2012 and 2018.

Education

Born in Yecheon County, Oum attended Daegu Science High School in Daegu from 1992. He then went to KAIST where he majored in mathematics and graduated with a B.S. in 1998. Studying in the Program of Applied and Computational Mathematics of Princeton University, he majored in graph theory and discrete mathematics. His dissertation was overseen by Professor Paul Seymour and Ph.D. was awarded in 2005.

Career

From 1999 to 2002, Oum worked as a computer programmer in Korea. He was a visiting assistant professor in the School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech for 2005-2006 and a postdoctoral fellow under Jim Geelen in the Department of Combinatorics & Optimization in the University of Waterloo in 2007. In 2008, he joined the Department of Mathematical Sciences KAIST as an assistant professor before coming an associate professor and then full professor in 2011 and 2016, respectively. He was an affiliate professor in the School of Mathematics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study for several years. In 2018, he was appointed as the CI (Chief Investigator) of the Discrete Mathematics Group in the Pioneer Research Center for Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS). This and the Pioneer Research Center for Biomolecular and Cellular Structure are the first of two such centers at IBS.[4][5][6]

Awards and honors

• 2017: Founding member of Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology[7][8]
• 2012: Young Scientist Award, President of Korea[9][10]
• 2011: Excellent Young Researcher Research Award, National Research Foundation of Korea
• 2010: Excellent Research Paper Award, Korean Mathematical Society[11][12]
• 2009: TJ Park Junior Faculty Fellowship, POSCO TJ Park Foundation[13]

References

1. "수학동아 "따끈따끈한 수학" 연재 (2019년)". Korean Ministry of Education (in Korean). 23 May 2020. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
2. "POSCO Science Fellowship". POSCO TJ Park Foundation. 23 May 2020. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
3. Oum, Sang-il (23 May 2020). "수학동아 "따끈따끈한 수학" 연재 (2019년)". Sang-il Oum (in Korean). Retrieved 23 May 2020.
4. 윤, 희은 (2 December 2018). "IBS, '젊은 연구자 주축' 연구단 출범". 한국경제 (in Korean). Retrieved 20 January 2020.
5. 이, 준기 (2 December 2018). "IBS, 젊은 과학자 3명 주축 `새 연구단` 출범". 디지털타임스 (in Korean). The DigitalTimes. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
6. 남, 도영 (2 December 2018). "IBS, 2개 연구단 새로 출범…30~40대 연구원 포진". 뉴스1 (in Korean). Retrieved 20 January 2020.
7. "젊은 과학자들의 모임 '차세대과학기술한림원' 출범". The Science Times (in Korean). Yonhap News Agency. 24 February 2017. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
8. "KAIST 교수 13인, 젊은 과학자 위한 차세대한림원 Y-KAST 창립회원 선정". KAIST (in Korean). 27 February 2017. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
9. 권, 동준 (20 December 2012). "올해 `젊은 과학자상`에 엄상일 카이스트 교수 등 선정". ETNews (in Korean). Retrieved 10 February 2020.
10. 김, 봉구 (24 December 2012). "[동정] '젊은 과학자상' 엄상일·최경수·남좌민·조남혁씨". Korea Economic Daily (in Korean). Retrieved 10 February 2020.
11. "회원소개 엄상일". Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (in Korean). Retrieved 10 February 2020.
12. "역대 학회상 수상자". Korean Mathematical Society (in Korean). Retrieved 10 February 2020.
13. "Sang-il Oum (엄상일)". Sang-il Oum. Retrieved 23 May 2020.

External links

• Sang-il Oum's home page
• IBS Discrete Mathematics Group
• Oum Sang-il - Google Scholar