Dr. Kim Won is a world-renowned scholar in the field of database systems. His esteemed career boasts distinguished positions such as the former chairmanship of ACM SIGMOD, the editorship of ACM Transactions on Database Systems, and the founding presidency of UniSQL in Austin. Dr. Kim's expertise extends to the architectural design of the ORION object-oriented database system, and his book, "Modern Database Systems: The Object Model, Interoperability, and Beyond" (Addison Wesley, 1994), remains a seminal reference in the field.