Changdon Kee

Changdon Kee is a professor and associate head of the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Seoul National University. He developed the basic concept and presented the first experimental test results of wide area differential GPS in the early 1990s.

Kee has published widely on GNSS, pseudolites, space mechanics and UAV Automatic navigation and control and holds more than 15 domestic and international patents for his work on GNSS.

He is a Korean government advisor to the cadastral division of the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs and the CNS/ATM system committee of the Ministry of Construction and Transportation. A past vice-president of the Korean Navigation Institute, he is currently the Asian Representative to the Satellite Division executive committee of the U.S. Institute of Navigation.

Kee earned a master’s degree and a doctoral degree in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University and a B.S. and M.S. in aeronautics engineering from Seoul National University.