Chief Investigator (CI) KIM Jae Kyoung of the Center for Mathematical and Computational Sciences Biomedical Mathematics Group within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), was invited as a plenary speaker at the SIAM Annual Meeting 2025 (AN25) in Montreal, Canada, this August. This marks the first time in the 70-plus years since SIAM’s founding in 1952 that a Korean mathematician has given a plenary lecture. Kim is also this year’s youngest plenary speaker.

The SIAM Annual Meeting is the world’s largest applied mathematics conference, attracting more than 3,000 mathematicians, engineers, and data scientists each year. Only a handful of researchers with outstanding academic achievements and influence are invited to deliver plenary lectures.

Kim has gained steady international attention for his interdisciplinary research spanning mathematics, machine learning, and computational science. His work has elucidated the mechanisms of sleep and circadian rhythms and extended to digital therapeutics and drug evaluation. This plenary invitation is regarded as a recognition of Kim’s accumulated academic contributions and a symbolic milestone demonstrating the growing global standing of Korean mathematics.

Kim’s lecture, titled “Synergy between Math Modeling and AI for Timeseries Analysis to Solve Human Health Problems,” showcased the latest results from combining mathematical modeling with artificial intelligence (AI) to address human health issues.

Highlights included ▲ Developing math-based causal inference methods to clarify the impact of climate on infectious disease spread, ▲ Using the Density-PINN technique, which combines mathematical models with neural networks, to identify therapeutic targets that preserve antibiotic effectiveness, ▲ Applying mathematical models and AI to analyze personal sleep data and recommend customized sleep patterns. This algorithm is now embedded in Samsung Galaxy Watch devices and used by tens of millions worldwide.

In his plenary address, Kim emphasized, “The fusion of mathematics and AI is a core tool for realizing personalized healthcare and precision medicine. This plenary lecture is an important milestone showing that Korean mathematics can play a central role on the global research stage.”

IBS Public Relations Team
William I. Suh

[Photo 1] CI KIM Jae Kyoung of the IBS Biomedical Mathematics Group

[Photo 2] CI KIM Jae Kyoung delivers the plenary lecture at the SIAM Annual Meeting 2025

[Photo 3] CI KIM Jae Kyoung delivers the plenary lecture at the SIAM Annual Meeting 2025