Honor & Award
ASME Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award, 2022
Outstanding Paper Award (우수논문상), Journal of Korea Robotics Society, 2022 (with post-doc Pyeong-Gook Jung and undergraduate student Hyukjoon Jang)
Selected as Cover Article, Applied Sciences, 2020
KIST Young Fellow, 2020
RMI-Research Award, the Robotics and Media Institute (RMI) in the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, 2019
Best Paper Award, the 4th International Conference on Active Materials and Soft Mechatronics (AMSM), 2019 (with graduate student Yeunhee Kim)
Best Paper Award, the 4th International Conference on Active Materials and Soft Mechatronics (AMSM), 2019 (with graduate student Yeunhee Kim / UNLV Nazanin Minaian and Kwang J. Kim)
IEEE Senior Member, 2019
Outstanding Reviewer Award, Smart Materials and Structures, 2018
RMI-Research Award, the Robotics and Media Institute (RMI) in the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, 2018
Best Paper Award, the 3rd International Workshop on Active Materials and Soft Mechatronics (AMSM), 2018 (with graduate student Yeunhee Kim)
RMI-Research Award, the Robotics and Media Institute (RMI) in the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, 2017
Listed in the “Most cited articles in 2013”, Smart Materials and Structures, 2015
Young Scientist Award, the 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), 2015
Student Best Paper Competition Award, the ASME Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS), 2012