Frank C. Park is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Seoul National University. He received the B.S. in EECS from MIT in 1985, the Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Harvard in 1991, and was on the faculty of the University of California, Irvine from 1991 to 1994.  He is a fellow of the IEEE, and has held adjunct faculty positions with the HKUST Robotics Institute in Hong Kong,  the Interactive Computing Department at Georgia Tech, and the NYU Courant Institute. His research interests include robotics, computer vision, mathematical data science, and related areas of applied mathematics.  He is a former Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, developer of the EDX course Robot Mechanics and Control I-II, and author (with Kevin Lynch) of the textbook Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control (Cambridge University Press, 2017). He served as president of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (2022–2023), and founder and CEO of the industrial AI startup Saige (http://saige.ai).

Research Interests: Robot mechanics, planning and control; mathematical systems theory; machine learning and mathematical data science; computer vision; related areas of applied mathematics.

Email: fcp@snu.ac.kr 

Address: School of Mechanical Engineering

  Seoul National University

  1, Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu

  Seoul, Republic of Korea (08826)

Office: Bldg. 301, Room 1408

Telephone: 02-880-7133