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Taebok Kim, who is a director as well as an assistant for Supply Chain Engineering Lab., is a currently Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering, Hanyang University in the Republic of Korea since September 2016.  After obtaining his master's degree from POSTECH(Pohang University of Science and Technology) in 1993, he joined KAF (Korea Air Force Academy) as a faculty member of the Department of Industrial Engineering for his military service. And then, he returned to POSCO (Pohang Steel & Iron Co.) as an Industrial Engineer in POSCO from the year of 1996 to 2001 before starting his Ph.D. program. After completing his Ph.D. program and prior to joining this school, he was a deputy manager at the Group for Supply Chain Management in SAMSUNG Electronics Co. During the period when he worked at SAMSUNG, his major role was to support SCM-related business activities for several business units.   In 2006, he joined the faculty member at the Graduate School of Logistics, Incheon National University.  Thus far, he has published several papers in several peer-reviewed international journals such as OMEGA-International Journal of Management Science, Transportation Research - Part E, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, and so on. Originally, he has studied a lot of problems in the area of economic lot-sizing problems since it must be one of the critical and essential problem sets which are needed for operating any kind of a big or practical supply chain. In other words, any supply chain is regarded as a serial set of lot-sizing decisions between two linked supply chain actors. Basically, his basic research topics stem from this basic lot-sizing decision by incorporating other interesting and practical issues such as pricing, quality, lead-time, supply chain contract, etc.  Recently, he has been studying several interesting problems managing the efficient operations of RTI (Returnable Transport Items) for economical forward-reverse or even closed-loop supply chains.  In addition, his major research interests include the optimal design of integrated supply chain design and logistics systems and the ergonomic design for logistics systems. Detailed information about the publications could be found on the site for Google Scholar. Also, he has been serving several international peer-reviewed journals with the duty of  Editorial Board Member for them. These journals are Int. J. Inventory Research, Int. J. Remanufacturing, Scientia Iranica - Transaction E, JIPE (Journal of Industrial and Production Engineering), Logistics, and so on. He has been enjoying making new research challenges and partnerships with anyone who has common research interests and motivation around the world.