Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor, Department of Robotics Engineering, Yeungnam University (2025.3 – present)

Joint Appointment, Department of Smart Mobility, Yeungnam University (2026.2 – present)

Ph.D., Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, DGIST, South Korea, 2024. (Advisor: Dongwon Yun)

B.S., School of Undergraduate Studies, DGIST, South Korea, 2018.

Robot hand & finger

Wearable robots

Industrial robot gripper & Mechatronics

Biosignal implementation & analysis for robots

Compliant mechanism

Paper Award (Title: Design and application of Forearm mount for Controlling Under-actuated robotic hand ), Dynamics·Control·Robot, Korea Society of Mechanical Engineers(KSME), Korea (Apr. 2025).

Encouragement Prize (5th-tier in Mechanical Engineering), 30th Humantech Paper Awards, Samsung, Korea (Feb. 2024).

Best Paper Award (Title : Design of Robotic Finger Mimicking the Thumb Using Compliant Flexure Joint), 2023 ICMT committee, Korea (Oct. 2023).

Paper Award (Title: Development of Tactile Sensor for Stable Gripping of Robot Hand), IT Convergence Division, Korea Society of Mechanical Engineers(KSME), Korea (Apr. 2023).

Paper Award (Title: Dynamic Analysis of Adaptive Gripper Fingers with p-CFH mechanism), IT Convergence Division, Korea Society of Mechanical Engineers(KSME), Korea (Apr. 2023).

2022 Outstanding Researcher Award, Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, DGIST, Korea (Mar. 2022).

Best Paper Award (The 15th Korea Robotics Society Annual Conference), Korea Robotics Society (KROS), Korea (Aug. 2020).

Outstanding Innovation Award (The Drone-Bot Challenge 2019), Republic of Korea-Army Headquaters (ROK-AH), Korea (Sep. 2019).

Best Collaboration Award (2017 DGIST UGRP Awards), DGIST, Korea (Mar. 2017).