Yun Kang

Yun Kang is associate director of the Acquisition and Technology Policy Center in the RAND National Security Research Division, and a senior operations researcher at the RAND Corporation. He has experience in both the public and private sector. His engagement areas at RAND have included supply chain management/logistics, artificial intelligence/machine learning applications and policymaking, defense planning, force structure and posture analysis, and Korean Peninsula/Asia-Pacific security.

Prior to joining RAND, Kang held a senior management position at a high-tech startup company providing supply chain software solutions for tracking pharmaceutical/healthcare products. Kang also worked as a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group in the Asia-Pacific region, where he advised multinational corporations on market entry, mergers and acquisitions, and IT strategy.

Kang completed his Masters and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His dissertation focused on how disruptive technologies can transform supply chain management, applying operations research methodologies.