I.P. Park received B.S. in Computer Science from Seoul National University in 1985, M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University in 1987 and 1993, respectively. His research areas include operating systems, computer graphics, various areas in communications and networking, computer vision, and robotics.

Dr. Park joined Samsung Electronics in 2006 and is Vice President leading Advanced Computer Science Group at Software Laboratories. His research group performs state-of-the art research in various areas including virtualization technologies, multimedia computing technologies, and security.

From 2001 to 2006, Dr. Park was Lead Scientist and Department Head of Security and Platform Technologies at Panasonic Princeton Laboratory. He worked in areas of operating system security, embedded Linux systems, and secure download for software-defined radio. Dr. Park was one of the key members responsible for establishing CE Linux Forum, and served as the founding chair of the Architecture Group.

From 1999 to 2001, Dr. Park was Director of Development at Timecruiser Computing Corporation, an Internet software company specializing in building Java-based enterprise systems.

From 1993 to 1999, Dr. Park was a faculty member at New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) in the computer science department. At the same time, he was also a visiting scholar at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore). At Bellcore, he participated in a large-scale project for designing and implementing an ADSL-based end-to-end research prototype featuring copper-based wideband access and OC-3c ATM backbone, video servers, and Internet gateways. The system supported MPEG and IP transport for Video On Demand and Internet Access applications.