Dr. Gunso Kim is Assistant Mayor for Information Technology and CIO (Chief Information Officer) of Seoul Metropolitan City. His expertise is planning big data-based services for city administration and sustainability.

Prior to joining Seoul City, Dr. Kim led the Daumsoft Inc., a text mining / big data company, for twelve years as CEO and successfully analyzed customer demands to provide customized marketing and planning strategies to major companies.

He is in his second year with Seoul City since February 2013 and has led the e-government policy-making and project implementation. Under the slogan of ‘Communicate on Mobile and Innovate with Big Data,’ he is pushing forward the development of the citizen-centered mobile services and the transformation into the mobile-based public service delivery. Recently, he led the application of big data for the post-midnight bus route design, drawing attention from home and abroad. New challenges of applying big data to public transportation are underway which include taxi matchmaking service and reduction of car accident.

He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Yonsei University in Korea and studied for PhD. the natural language processing for human-machine interaction.