Dr. Suk Ho Chung was Named Professor in Mechanical Engineering at KAUST since 2009 and the Founding Director of the Clean Combustion Research Center (CCRC). He has served as a professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Seoul National University in Korea. Additionally, he served as Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Advanced Automotive Research Center. 
He has published over 180 articles in international journals. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He served as Board of Directors and International Secretary of the Combustion Institute and Program Co-chair for 35th International Symposium on Combustion. His services include Vice President of the Korea Society of Automotive Engineers and the Korea Society of Combustion, Editorial board member of Combustion and Flame and Editor-in-chief of International Journal of Automotive Technology (IJAT). He earned his doctoral and master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University, Illinois, in the United States. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Seoul National University in Korea.​