Park, Kyung Ryul is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy, and Adjunct Professor in the College of Business at KAIST. He served the KAIST AI Institute, AI & Society Committee as the Chair. He received his Ph.D. in Management (Information Systems and Innovation) from London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School and B.S. in Chemical and Biological Engineering, and B.A. in International Relations from Seoul National University (SNU).

Park's research is primarily concerned with questions of technology, governance and global development. A core area of Park's study includes national development strategy, data-driven policy, ICT and development (ICT4D) and global technology politics. His current empirical research explores the role of digital innovation and big data in socio-economic development with a particular interest in investigating the global diffusion of data platforms and digital governance and the rise and fall of technology-driven development policy.

Prior to KAIST, he worked in the field of international development for seven years including the World Bank Innovation Labs, UN World Intellectual Property Organization, and Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). As a development practitioner, he has worked within a multidisciplinary environment in bridging the gap between theory and practice, in linking up data of different epistemological nature (qualitative and quantitative), using a range of innovative methods (experimental analysis, field work, observation, mixed methods). He worked in Tanzania (2004-2007), India (2008), the United States and East Africa (2010-2013), Indonesia (2015, 2016) and conducted field research in Kenya, Uganda, and Cambodia.

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He has served as a member of the Advisory Committee in Ministry of Science and ICT; Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and the National Committee of International Development Cooperation; as well as Meta Inc. .​​​