Dr Zong Woo Geem is a faculty member of Johns Hopkins University, teaching and researching in Environmental Planning & Management Program. His research interest includes water network design, hydrologic mode, calibration, dam operation, ecological system planning, and energy system planning. He is an inventor of music-inspired optimisation algorithm, harmony search, which has been successfully applied to various optimisation problems, such as project scheduling, structural design, groundwater management, vehicle routing.
and energy system planning, as well as music composition, Sudoku puzzle, robotics. bioinformatics, and medical imaging. The paper analyzing astronomical data was aven published in Nature.