Applied Mathematics Professor Kwon Kil-hyun of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) was named 'the International Scientist of the Year' by the International Biographical Center in Cambridge, Britain.

Kwon is also to be listed in this year’s edition of Marquis Who’s Who, one of the world’s most renowned databases for biographies.

He has published some one hundred papers in renowned academic journals on differential equations and special functions.

He has earned recognition by solving various problems in the field of special functions.