Mr. Paul Kim

Paul Kim is a Digital Transformation Engineer at Merck with 12 years of end-to-end manufacturing experience spanning process design, plant operations, modeling, and AI. He began his career as a Process Engineer at DL E&C, then worked as a Simulation Engineer at AspenTech, and served as an AI/Data Scientist at LG Chem before joining Merck. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and an M.S. in Artificial Intelligence from Yonsei University. His current work focuses on deploying LLM-based agentic AI and ontology-driven data architectures to enable autonomous manufacturing intelligence.