Robotics Research Group (CARES), University of Auckland, New Zealand
Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor at major universities abroad), 2015 - present
Robotics Research Group (CARES), University of Auckland, New Zealand
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2013 - 2015
Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratory, ATR International, JAPAN
Research Scientist, 2012 - 2013
Android Robotics Laboratory, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH), Republic of Korea
Senior Researcher, 2010 - 2012
Samsung Software Membership, Samsung Electronics Co., Republic of Korea
Researcher, 2001 - 2008
Sungkyunkwan Institute of Robot, Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea
Researcher, 1999 - 2004
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Lecturer, 2014 - present
Title: COMPSYS 302 - Design: Software Practice at Semester 1
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Lecturer, 2021 - present
Title: SOFTENG 364 - Computer Network at Semester 2
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Lecturer, 2018 - 2019
Title: COMPSYS 303 - Embedded System at Semester 2
Department of Intelligent Robot Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
Lecturer, September 2011 - February 2012
Title: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Department of Intelligent Robot Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
Guest Lecturer, March 2011 - August 2011
Title: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Robot Soccer System Tutorial, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Tutor, 2014 - present
1 hour weekly teaching session with students volunteers (more than 100 students from ECSE, CS, Mechatronics, Meth, etc.)
New Zealand Robot Soccer Championship, New Zealand
General Chair, 2014 - present
New Zealand Robot Olympiad, New Zealand
General Chair, 2017 - present
World Robot Olympiad New Zealand Division, New Zealand
General Co-Chair, 2022 - present
Faculty of Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
Invited Lecturer, September 2021
Title: Robots come to us: Real-world applications
School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea
Invited Lecturer, September 2010
Title: Introduction to Mobile Robot
School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
Invited Lecturer, April 2008
Title: Introduction to Robot Soccer System
Technical Seminar, Samsung Software Membership, Samsung Electronics Co., Republic of Korea
Lecturer, 2003 - 2008
Titles were various, but all about robotics.
Keynote Speech, 6th Open Seminar, Samsung Software Membership, Samsung Electronics Co., Republic of Korea
Invited Speaker, May 2007
Title: Introduction to service robot system
Keynote Speech, 1st Open Seminar, Samsung Software Membership, Samsung Electronics Co., Republic of Korea
Invited Speaker, April 2005
Title: Designing of robot soccer system
IEEE
Senior Member, 2022 - present
CARES (Centre for Automation and Robotic Engineering Science), University of Auckland, New Zealand
Deputy Director, 2016 - present
Robotics and Automation Joint-Chapter, IEEE New Zealand
Chapter Chair, 2022 - present
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE
Associate Editor, 2019 - present
International Journal of Social Robotics, Springer
Associate Editor, 2013 - present
MDPI Robotics (ISSN 2218-6581), MDPI
Associate Editor, 2020 - present
American Journal of Biomedical Science & Research
Associate Editor, 2021 - present
Artificial Intelligence Researchers Association
General Board Member, 2022 - present
The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
Editorial Board Member, 2023 - present
Te Hiranga Rū QuakeCoRE
Associate Investigator, 2023 - present
International Robot Olympiad Association (IROA)
Committee Member / Representative of New Zealand, 2017 - present
New Zealand Robot Olympiad Association (NZROA)
Chair, 2017 - present
New Zealand Robot Sports Association (NZRSA)
Chair, 2015 - present
Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea
Honorary Scientist and Advisor, 2020-2022
FIRA World Robot Soccer Championship, MiroSot competition category
Co-Chair, 2016 - present
IEEE New Zealand North Section
Section Past Chair, 2021 - 2022
IEEE New Zealand North Section
Section Chair, 2019 - 2020
Robotics and Automation Joint-Chapter, IEEE New Zealand
Co-Chair, 2017 - 2021
IEEE New Zealand North Section
Section Secretary, 2017 - 2018
IEEE Technical Committee on Software Engineering for Robotics and Automation (TC-SOFT)
Member, 2015 - present
CARES (Centre for Automation and Robotic Engineering Science), University of Auckland, New Zealand
Secretary, 2014 - 2016
Robotics and Automation Chapter, IEEE New Zealand North Section
Chapter Representative, 2014 - 2016
International Journal of Social Robotics, Springer
Guest Editor, 2012 - 2013
International Conference on Social Robotics, Springer
Robot Design Competition Chair, 2012 - 2013
Samsung Techwin Joint Workshop 2009, Republic of Korea
Student Chairman, 2009
1st Robot Soccer Central League Championship, Republic of Korea
Chairman, 2001
Demonstration of Robot Soccer, 2002 FIFA WORLD CUP KOREA / JAPAN Drawing, Republic of Korea
Invited Demonstrator, 2001
[Committee]
21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2026), Publication Chair, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2026.
IEEE Robotic Computing (IRC 2025), Publicity Co-Chair, Italy, 2025 [webpage]
19th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2024), Fundraising/Demo/Expo Chair, Colorado, USA, 2024 [webpage]
32th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2023), Organizing Committee, Inclusion Chair, Pusan, Korea, 2023 [webpage]
IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2023), Workshop Co-Chair, Auckland, New Zealand, 2023 [webpage]
IEEE Robotic Computing (IRC 2023), Publicity Co-Chair, USA, 2023 [webpage]
IEEE Robotic Computing (IRC 2022), Publicity Co-Chair, Naples, Italy, 2022 [webpage]
16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2021), Video Co-Chair, Colorado, USA, 2021 [webpage]
IEEE TENCON 2021, Publications Chair, Auckland, New Zealand, 7-10 Dec. 2021 [webpage]
6th International Joint Conference on Convergence (IJCC 2020), Organizing Chair, Auckland, New Zealand, 2020 [webpage]
12th annual conference organized by Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA), Local Management Committee, Auckland, New Zealand, 2020 [webpage]
4th IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC 2020), Publicity Co-Chair, Taichung, Taiwan, 2020 [webpage]
18th International Conference on Electronics, Information and Communications (ICEIC 2019), Co-Organizing Chair / Local arrangement, Auckland, New Zealand, 2019 [webpage]
14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2019), Registration Chair, Daegu, Korea, 2019 [webpage]
28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2019), Workshop/Tutorial Co-Chair, New Delhi, India, 2019 [webpage]
International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2019), Robot Design Competition Chair, Madrid, Spain, 2019, Springer
3rd IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC 2019), Publicity Co-Chair, Naples, Italy, 2019 [webpage]
10th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2018), Publicity Co-Chair, Qingdao, China, 2018 [webpage]
2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC 2018), Publicity Co-Chair, USA, 2018 [webpage]
11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2016), Local Arrangement Co-Chair, Christ Church, New Zealand, 2016 [webpage]
2016 IEEE CyberSciTech/DASC/PICom/DataCom, Local Arrangement Co-Chair, Auckland, New Zealand, 2016
International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2013), Robot Design Competition Chair, UK, 2013, Springer
International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2012), Robot Design Competition Chair, China, 2012, Springer
21st FIRA World Robot Soccer Championship Beijing 2016, MiroSot Co-Chair, Beijing, China, 2016
[Program/Technical Committee Member]
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE, 2021 - present, Associate Editor
International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), IEEE, 2021 - present, Associate Editor
International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), Springer, 2014 - present
Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA), 2014 - present
International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR), Springer, 2014 - present
International Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems Conference (INISCom), 2014 - present
International Conference on Education and Entertainment Robotics (ICEER), 2015 - present
FIRA Robot World Cup, 2016 - present
IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), 2017 - present
International Conference on Data Processing and Robotics (ICDPR), 2017 - present
International Conference on Soft Computing and its Engineering Applications (icSoftComp), 2017 - present
IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech), 2017 - present
International Conference on Service Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA), 2017 - present
International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC), 2019- present
International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), Associate Editor, 2017-present
[Special Issue/Session/Workshop Organizer]
Special Issue on Advances in Deep Learning for Drones and Its Applications: 2nd Edition, MDPI Drones, 2024.
Special Issue on Social Robotics, Journal of Korea Robotics Society, 2024. [webpage]
Special Issue on Towards Socially Intelligent Robots, MDPI Remote Sensing, 2024. [webpage]
Special Session on Social Human-Robot Interaction of Human-Care Service Robots, IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2024), 2024. [webpage] [CFP]
Special Session on Social Human-Robot Interaction of Human-Care Service Robots, 21st International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR 2024), IEEE, 2024.
Special Session on Social Human-Robot Interaction of Human-Care Service Robots, IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2023), 2023. [webpage]
Special Session on Social Human-Robot Interaction of Human-Care Service Robots, 20th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR 2023), IEEE, 2023.
Special Session on Cloud Robots, 20th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR 2023), IEEE, 2023.
Special Issue on Applications of Remote Data Capture Systems in Agriculture and Vegetation, MDPI Remote Sensing, 2022. [webpage]
Special Session on Social Human-Robot Interaction of Human-Care Service Robots, IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022), 2022. [webpage]
Special Session on Nonverbal Communication Skills in Humans and Robots, IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022), 2022.
Special Issue on Social Human-Robot Interaction (sHRI) of Human-Care Service Robots, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021. [webpage]
Special Issue on Machine Learning for Social Human-Robot Interaction, International Journal of Social Robotics, 2021. [webpage]
Special Session on Social Human-Robot Interaction of Service Robots, 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2021), 2021. [webpage]
Workshop on Social AI for Human-Robot Interaction of Human-Care Robots, International Conference on Social Robotics 2021 (ICSR 2021), Springer, 2021. [webpage]
Special Issue on Social Human-Robot Interaction for Human-Care Robots, Intelligent Service Robotics, 2021. [webpage]
Workshop on Social AI for Human-Robot Interaction of Human-Care Service Robots, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robot and Systems (IROS 2020), 2020. [webpage]
Workshop on Social Human-Robot Interaction of Human-Care Service Robots, 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020), 2020. [webpage]
Special Session on Social Human-Robot Interaction of Service Robots, 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2019), 2019. [webpage]
Workshop on Social Human-Robot Interaction of Human-Care Service Robots, 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2019), 2019. [webpage]
Special Session on Social Human-Robot Interaction of Service Robots, 16th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR 2019), IEEE, 2019.
Workshop on Social Human-Robot Interaction of Human-care Service Robots, 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2019), 2019. [webpage]
Workshop on Social Human-Robot Interaction of Human-care Service Robots, International Conference on Social Robotics 2018 (ICSR 2018), Springer, 2018. [webpage]
Special Session on Social Human-Robot Interaction of Service Robots, 27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2018), 2018. [webpage]
Special Session on Social Human-Robot Interaction of Service Robots, 15th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR 2018), IEEE, 2018. [webpage]
Workshop on Social Human-Robot Interaction of Human-Care Service Robots, International Conference on 13th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2018), 2018. [webpage]
Workshop on Social Robot Intelligence for Social Human-Robot Interaction of Service Robots, International Conference on Social Robotics 2017 (ICSR 2017), Springer, 2017. [webpage]
Special Session on Autonomous Farming Technologies and Agricultural Robotics, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robot and Systems (IROS 2016), 2016.
Special Session on Assistive Technologies for Healthcare Robotics, IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN 2015), 2015.
Special Session on Healthcare Robots, IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM 2015), 2015.
Special Session on Social Robots for Therapeutic Purposes, International Conference on Social Robotics 2014 (ICSR 2014), Springer, 2014.
Workshop on Social Robotics for Health Innovation, International Conference on Social Robotics 2014 (ICSR 2014), Springer, 2014.
Special Session on Robotic Emotion and its Applications, IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM 2013), 2013.
[Invited talks]
Keynote speaker, International Symposium on Advanced and Applied Convergence (ISAAC 2021), 12 Nov. 2021.
Keynote speaker, Young Professional Forum for postgraduate and early PostDocs / Young Generation Forum for undergraduate students, 15 Oct. 2021.
Keynote speaker, Korean Academy of Scientists and Engineers in Australasia (KASEA) webinar, 29 Oct. 2020.
Keynote speaker, 6th International Joint Conference on Convergence (IJCC 2020), 2020. [webpage]
Invited speaker, Workshop on Social Robots in therapy and care, 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2019), 2019.
Keynote speaker, 16th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR 2019), 2019. [webpage]
Invited speaker, Social Robots in Therapy and Care workshop, 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2019), 2019. [webpage]