Dr. Daeyeon Cho is the Chief Director of the National Strategic Smart City R&D Program in Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement(KAIA), a member of the Special Committee of Smart Cities by Presidency, a member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea, a Head of Smart Cities Special Interest Group of IPMA. He has been in charge of planning and implementation of National R&D programs in the fields of urban problems, architecture, civil structures, and transportation since 2005. He suggested National Flagship Program pursue value creation by large-scale demonstrative projects for the first time in Korea. Among them were the prominent achievements of 430 km/h high-speed railways, a 100-floor high-rise building, 1.6km long-span bridge. Before his present position, he had been a director of corporate venturing and research in the Korea Highway Corporation from 1995 to 2004. He worked at George Washington University as a visiting scholar in the Center of International Science and Technology Policy(CISTP)(2011-2012). He got a Ph.D in Structural Engineering from Seoul National University in 1994.