Reliability and Risk Issues in Large Scale Safety-critical Digital Control Systems

Poong Hyun Seong is a full professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), where he founded the Nuclear Instrumentation and Control and Information Engineering (NICIE) laboratory, one of the National Research Laboratories (NRL). He has served as a consultant to the Korea Electric Power Research Institute (KEPRI), the Korea Power Electric Company (KOPEC), and the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI). His research interests include research and development of digital instrumentation and control systems, software verification and validation, digital system reliability/safety assessment, human reliability assessment (HRA), quantitative safety assessment of instrumentation and control systems (including human operators), cognitive systems engineering, and research and development of ubiquitous maintenance systems.