Academic Experience

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

Education

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

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

Research Areas

• Wearable robotics (wearable robotic glove)

• Biosignal implementation and analysis for robots (EMG signal)

• Robotic hand & finger

• Industrial robot gripper system & mechatronics

• Compliant mechanism

• Brain-Robot Interface (BRI)

Awards and Honors

• 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).