KwanMyung is an Associate Professor of Graduate School of Creative Design Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology (UNIST), South Korea, and a founder & CEO of a design-driven start-up, ‘ID Space.’ Dr. Kim received his BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees in industrial design at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Since 1994, he worked for Samsung Heavy Industries, a venture, and design consulting firms for 14 years as a product designer and a design engineer. During this time, he was involved in various product design and development projects. In 2014, he completed his PhD research with a topic of collaborative design process of industrial design and engineering. He is interested in integrating industrial and academic knowledge through design research and practice. As part of it, ID Space commercializes design concepts generated at school as market products. He is on the Spark Asia Advisory Board and 2-time Juror.