Facts: - fields: ict convergence - workplaces: kt convergence engineering , postech -lsb- http://ait.kt.com/ ait -rsb- / division of it - birth date: 28 september 1959 - name: james won-ki hong - image: jwhong.jpg Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of james won-ki hong .
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james won-ki hong is senior executive vice president and cto of kt corporation overseeing r&d activities and leading kt advanced institute of technology -lrb- ait -rrb- .prior to joining kt , he was a professor and head of the division of it convergence engineering at postech .he received a ph.d. degree from the university of waterloo in 1991 .his research interests include network management , network monitoring and network analysis , ict convergence , ubiquitous computing , and smartphonomics .he has served as chair -lrb- 2005 -- 2009 -rrb- of the ieee communications society -lrb- ieee comsoc -rrb- , committee on network operations and management -lrb- cnom -rrb- .he has also served ieee comsoc director of online content -lrb- 2004 -- 2005 , 2010 -- 2011 -rrb- .he is editorinchief of international journal on network management -lrb- ijnm -rrb- and of comsoc technology news .he is the chair of steering committee of ieee/ifip nomsim -lrb- international symposium on integrated network management -rrb- and steering committee member of apnoms .he was general chair of apnoms 2006 , and general co-chair of apnoms 2008 and apnoms 2011 .he was general co-chair of ieee/ifips noms 2010 .he is an editorial board member of ieee tnsm -lrb- transactions on network and service management -rrb- , jnsm -lrb- journal of network and systems management -rrb- and jcn -lrb- journal of communications and networks -rrb- .