Principal Investigator

Work Experience

• Assistant Professor, Dept. of Autonomous Systems Engineering, Korea Aerospace University (Mar. 2026 - Present) 

• Senior Researcher, Defense AI R&D Institute, Agency for Defense Development  (Apr. 2024 - Jan. 2026)

Education

• Ph.D., Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (Feb. 2019 - Feb. 2024) (Advisor: Prof. Jinwhan Kim)

  • Thesis: Enhanced maritime situational awareness using camera and radar for autonomous ships and its experimental validation

• M.S., Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (Feb. 2017 - Feb. 2019) (Advisor: Prof. Jinwhan Kim)

  • Thesis: Vehicle localization in urban environments by fusing aerial map and lidar data

• B.S., Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (Feb. 2012 - Feb. 2017)

Academic Services (Reviewer)

• IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

• Intelligent Service Robotics

• IEEE Access

• Journal of Korea Robotics Society

• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

• International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots

Awards

• IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021 Honorable Mention (2nd author) (May. 2022)

• Journal of Field Robotics, Top cited article 2020-2021 (3rd author) (Mar. 2022)

• 한국해양공학회, 학생우수논문발표상 (1st author) (Jan. 2022)

• 한국과학기술원 기계공학과, 우수조교상 (Aug. 2021)

• 한국과학기술단체 총연합회, 제30회 과학기술우수논문상 (2nd author) (Jul. 2020)

• RobotX and robonation, 2019 Virtual RobotX Competition 1st Place Winners (Team leader) (Dec. 2019)

• 한국과학기술원 기계공학과, 우수조교상 (Sep. 2019)

• 한국과학기술원, 2016년 여름/가을 및 Long-Term URP 프로그램 워크샵 우수상 (Feb. 2017)

• 한국로봇학회, 제11회 한국로봇종합학술대회 포스터 우수 논문상 (2nd author) (Jan. 2016)

• 한국차세대컴퓨팅학회, 웨어러블 컴퓨터 경진대회 우수 아이디어상 (Nov. 2013)