Chemical Science +
Information Technologies

Company History

  1. 2006

    • Founded with the visions of developing chemical related technologies and products based on the fundamental understandings of the substances at the level of quantum chemistry.
      Dr. Tae-Yun Park , the founder of ChemEssen confirmed this feasibility during his Ph. D. works.
    • By combining chemical science with information technologies, ChemEssen’s goal was to challenge the chemical space comprising infinitive number of chemicals and contribute to the chemical industries using the revolutionary products.
    • Initiated the core technology developments related to quantum chemical analysis.
    • Attracted a domestic direct investment.

  2. 2007

    • Completed the construction of ChemEssen’s own computing center which contains 200 computer CPU cores.
    • Initiated the core technology developments related to auto generation of chemicals, mathematical modeling, scientific computations, parallel processing, auto processing of chemicals, networking & communication, and software developments.
    • Established the company-affiliated research institute.

  3. 2008

    • Upgraded the computing center by adding additional 2,000 computer CPU cores.
    • Completed the core technology developments related to quantum chemical analysis, auto processing of chemicals, parallel processing, and auto processing of chemicals.
    • Initiated the core technology developments related to the special database for scientific chemical information and artificial intelligence based on the artificial neural network approach.
    • Awarded 1st government grant for an innovative technology development project granted by Small and Medium Business Administration.
    • Certified for Venture Business by Small and Medium Business Administration.
    • Completed the installation of the testbed servers for commercial services.

  4. 2009

    • Completed the quantum chemical analysis based process for 1 million chemical compounds.
    • Initiated the core technology developments related to user interface & web service and 3D image processing & animation of chemical compounds.
    • Awarded 2nd government grant for an innovative technology development project granted by Small and Medium Business Administration.

  5. 2010

    • Launched the beta version of Mol-Instincts database with the PC client software for user’s side.
    • Moved the computing center to an IDC (Internet Data Center) and upgraded by adding 5 additional high-performance servers equipped with GPU (Graphics Processing Unit).
    • Completed the core technology developments related to special database construction and 3D image processing & animation of chemical compounds.

  6. 2011

    • Completed the developments of all the property prediction modules.
    • Upgraded the computing center by adding additional high-performance servers with 312 CPU cores.
    • Initiated the core technology developments related to server infra & cloud system.
    • Completed the core technology developments related to mathematical modeling, artificial intelligence, scientific computations, and networking & communication.
    • Applied 41 technology based patents.
    • Attracted 1st foreign direct investment.

  7. 2012

    • Registered 2 trade marks for more than 30 countries around the world.
    • Initiated the core technology developments related to embedded system.
    • Completed the core technology developments related to web and PC software.

  8. 2013

    • Launched the commercial version of Mol-Instincts database with the PC client software for user’s side.
    • Registered 40 technology based patents.
    • Completed the core technology developments related to user interface & web service.
    • Initiated the development of web version of Mol-Instincts database.

  9. 2014

    • Registered 1 business model based patent.
    • Awarded grand prize for the best patented products.
    • Launched the web version of Mol-Instincts database.
    • Completed the core technology developments related to embedded system and server infra & cloud system.
    • Initiated the development of ChemRTP

  10. 2015

    • Upgraded Mol-Instincts database by adding additional 1.7 million chemical compounds.
    • Launched ChemRTP online service.
    • Awarded 3rd government grant for an innovative technology development project granted by Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy.
    • Attracted 2nd foreign direct investment.
    • Initiated the development of UnitPot.
    • Initiated the development of ChemTopia Platform.

  11. 2016

    • Launched UnitPot.
    • Launched the beta version of Chemtopia.
    • Initiated the development of 8 additional products or online services by applying ChemEssen’s core technologies.
    • Upgraded the computing center by adding additional high-performance servers with 384 CPU cores.

  12. 2017

  13. 2018

OUR CEO

Dr. TAE-YUN PARK
Company CEO

Dr. Tae-Yun Park is the founder, CEO, and president of ChemEssen. He earned his B.S. from KAIST, and M.S. from POSTECH, South-Korea, both in Chemical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from University of Ghent, Belgium under the direction of world-famous Professor Gilbert F. Froment.

After completing Ph. D. in 1998, Dr. Park moved to the US and worked for the major chemical companies for more than 6 years. Based on these experiences, he started up ChemEssen in 2006 in Seoul, South-Korea with the vision of next-generation database and software system.

Dr. Park is a specialist for chemical process development & optimization, and catalytic reactor design & analysis. He developed many chemical reactors and processes for industrial applications. From quantum chemistry to fluid dynamics, from atoms to commercial chemical plant, his work is firmly based on fundamental understanding of complicated phenomena in chemical applications.

Dr. Park is the author of over 15 international scientific publications and holds 41 patents in the area of chemical property estimations and commercial applications, and won a R&D fund of more than $11 million USD from the US Department of Energy in 2001.

Organization Structure

chemessen Organization