Kiyong Kim received the D.Sc. degree from the Systems Science and Mathematics Department at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, in 1995. He worked for the Agency for Defense Development, Korea, from 1979 to 1988, as a Research Engineer. He is currently a Consulting R&D Engineer at Basler Electric Company. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He is a member of the IEEE/PES Excitation System and Controls Subcommittee, IEEE Industry Applications, and IEEE Computational Intelligence Societies.