Education and Career

Mar 1980 - Feb 1984   B.S.   Department of Control and Instrumentation Engineering

                                           Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Mar 1984 - Feb 1986   M.S.  Department of Control and Instrumentation Engineering

                                           Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Sep 1988 - Dec 1993   Ph.D.  Department of Aerospace Engineering

                                             University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Master Thesis (1986): “Error Analysis of Strapdown Inertial Navigation System” (Advisor: Jang Kyu Lee in Electrical Engineering)

Ph. D. Dissertation (1993):   “Analysis and Synthesis of Linear Time-Invariant Control Systems with Positive real Uncertainty” (Advisor: Pramod P. Khargonekar in EECS)

Jan 1994 ~ Jan 1995  Post-Doc, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Mar 1995~ current       Professor, School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, College of  ICT Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Korea

Aug 2001~Aug 2002  Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, USA

Sep 2014 ~Jun 2015   Visiting Professor, Department of Communication and Systems Engineering, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

Research Interests

  Robot SLAM, Visual-Inertial Odometry, Intelligent Robot Navigation

 Deep Learning/Machine Learning

 Robust control, Optimal Control

 Inertial Navigation System (INS), Global Navigation Satellite Navigation (GNSS)

 Filtering

Journal Editor 

Jan 2014~Dec 2017    Editor, International Journal on Control, Automation, and Systems (IJCAS)

Jan 2009~Dec 2011    Editor, Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology (JEET)

Academic Activity 

Jan 2022~Dec 2022   Vice President, The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers (대한전기학회 부회장)

Jan 2018~Dec 2018   Vice President, The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers (대한전기학회 부회장)

Jan 2018~Dec 2018    President, Society of Information and Control, The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers  (대한전기학회 정보및제어 부문회 회장)

Jan 2015~Dec 2017    Chairperson, Technical committee of Navigation, Guidance, and Control, Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems 

(제어로봇시스템학회, 항법유도제어 연구회장)

Jan 2011~Dec 2016   Chairperson, Technical committee of Control and Instrumentation, The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers 

(대한전기학회 정보및제어 부문회 제어계측연구회장)

Jan 2008~Dec 2013    Associate Editor, International Journal on Control, Automation, and Systems

Jan 2009~Dec 2010    Editorial Director, Division D, The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers

Jan 2007~Dec 2011    Editorial Director, Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems

Honors and Award 

• IJCAS Achievement Award (공로상), The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers, Oct 24, 2024

• 양흥석 학술상, The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers, Oct 24, 2019

• KIEE Achievement Award (공로상), The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers, Oct 24, 2018

• ICROS Academic Award (ICROS 학술상), Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems, , Oct 19, 2017

•  IJCAS Academic Activity Award, Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems, 2016, 2015, 2013, 2009, 2008.

• IROSS'99 Award, Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems, Oct. 19, 2007