Jimin Kwon is a computer scientist who co-developed the first multi-media email system at Carnegie Mellon University in 1982. In 1992, while working at Bell Communications Research, he sent the first email attachment, a audio file. He is also known for being one of the original designers of the MIME protocol in 1995, which extended email formatting to support multimedia attachments and non-ASCII text and became the standard that the entire email system now relies on. Currently, he works as a Chief Scientist at an email management company.