Colleges & Departments

The College of Natural Sciences led the establishment of the Bioscience Park to cultivate the health, beauty, and biological industries that are specialized regional strategic industries based on biological technologies. It also took the lead in creating the Jeju Science Park, one of the seven core projects promoted by Jeju Province to turn itself into a ‘Free International City’, in order to foster high-tech industries specializing in the information and biological technologies. In the process, the College of Natural Sciences actively helped advance the regional industries, generate new growth engines, create jobs, and add values to the local products.

The prominent faculty of the College of Natural Sciences have promoted domestic and international academic exchanges as well as research to educate highly specialized individuals which the local community requires. In order to solidify its status as the leader of a knowledge-based information society in the 21st century, it will keep pioneering the reform and ensure the students can attain a successful future.

Introduction

With the advent of the 4th industrial revolution era centered on AI and big data, the Department of Data Science was established to respond to the rapidly changing high-tech ICT environment with the importance of data science. Our department’s goals are to cultivate the software experts specializing in data analysis and data scientists with software capabilities.
This department, starting from the existing Department of Computational Statistics, operates a professional education to promote ICT capabilities that collect and processes various big data based on basic knowledge such as mathematics and statistics and expand to business models. Our faculty members contribute greatly to the local community and industry through industry-academic cooperation as well as education and research, involving in projects related to future industries such as smart grid, electric vehicle, augmented reality and big data statistics. The Department of Data Science with excellent faculty composed of ICT majors and statistics majors trains our students who are able to make important contributions to local industry and society in the 4th industrial revolution era.

Aims

The transition to the 4th industrial revolution era, where AI and big data are the core, requires education and professionals in the fields of information/computing and data science. Through the information/computing and data science curricula, the department aims to nurture the professionals with the ability and knowledge:

1. Scientists with broad knowledge in information/computing, statistics and big data.
2. Professionals with the creative ability to solve problems of the information age society through diverse approaches.
3. Well-rounded persons of maturity and integrity with understanding and communicative personal attributes.

Visons and Careers

Students educated through the departmental curricula will be able to work as an IT expert and a data scientist for data consulting firms, financial and general enterprises and government agencies. They can also go to graduate schools at home or abroad and work in various fields using computing and data science. In particular, due to the transition to the 4th industrial revolution era, the demand for big data analyst is increasing rapidly in government agencies and industries. According such a trend, they are able to find jobs in diverse career areas after graduation.