Summary
Tae Park is a chemical engineer and entrepreneur who has led ChemEssen, Inc. since 2006, building software and database systems that fuse quantum chemistry, statistical thermodynamics, QSPR, and neural networks to predict chemical property data. He holds a PhD from Ghent’s LPT and earlier degrees from KAIST and POSTECH, and translated six years of hands-on industrial experience at Catalytica and SABIC into a company focused on next-generation chemical informatics. An inventor at heart, he is named on over 50 patents and has authored more than 15 international publications spanning reactor design, low-NOx combustion, fuel-cell related energy solutions, and membrane- and plate-type reactor innovations. Comfortable from quantum mechanics to full-scale plant engineering, he combines fundamental theory with practical process optimization to improve productivity across refining, pharmaceutical, and energy applications. Based in Daejeon, South Korea, he uniquely bridges academic rigor and commercial deployment, turning complex reaction phenomena into deployable software and reactor configurations.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Chemical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Chemical Engineering at Universiteit Gent
Bachelor's degree, Chemical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Chemical Engineering at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Master's degree, Chemical Engineering, Master's degree, Chemical Engineering at POSTECH (Pohang Institute of Science and Technology)
English, Korean