Taek-Soo Jang is a Professor in the Department of Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering at Pusan National University. He has published over 40 papers on applications of analytic methods. He is especially interested in developing a mathematical procedure for discovering problems arising in fluid mechanics, water waves, floating body mechanics, and their combined inverse problems, and system identification of offshore structures. He is an editorial board member of several well-known journals. He is also a member of the International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC) and an associate Member of The Royal Institution of Naval Architects.