• Name: Sangwook Park
• Date of Birth: December 23, 1969
• Country of Citizenship: Korea
• Work Address:
  
  NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
  
  
  Code 662
  
  
  Greenbelt, MD. 20771
  
  
  Phone:
  
  
  Fax:
  
  
  E-mail: spark@lobster.gsfc.nasa.gov
  
  
  WWW: http://pursn3.physics.purdue.edu/~parksan/
• Home Address:
  
  10205 Baltimore Ave. ATP 7305
  
  
  College Park, MD. 20740
  
  
  Phone: 301-513-0671
• Education:
• B.Sc., Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL., May 1992
• Ph.D., Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN., August, 1998
• Work Experience:
  
  • July 1998 - Present: Visiting Fellow NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Universities Space Research Association
  • January 1995 - June 1998: Research Assistant Department of Physics, Purdue University
  • August 1993 - December 1994: Teaching Assistant Department of Physics, Purdue University
• Technical Experience:
  
  Experienced with standard packages IRAF, MIDAS/EXSAS, XSPEC, FTOOLS as well as programming languages such as FORTRAN, PASCAL, and C. Expertise with the only existing software package for the non-cosmic background subtraction and exposure correction of the ROSAT PSPC pointed observations (written by Snowden).
• Awards and Honors:
• The First Annual Physics Graduate Student Poster Competition
  1996, Department of Physics, Purdue University
• Graduated with Honors, 1992, Department of Computer Science
  Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL.
• Dean's List, 1988-1992, Department of Computer Science
  Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL.
• Community Service:
• Served as a referee for the Astronomical Journal, 1996
• Served as the representative of Purdue Korean Physics Students, 1994-1995
• Professional Societies:
• American Astronomical Society (AAS)
• AAS - High Enery Astrophysics Division (HEAD)
• Worldwide Association of Korean Physicists
• Association of Korean Physicists in America (AKPA)

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Jul. 10, 1998
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