Professor

Education

2010.09 - 2015.08 Ph.D. in Civil & Environmental Engineering, KAIST (Advisor: Prof. Hyun Myung, Urban Robotics Lab)

2008.09 - 2010.08 M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering, KAIST (Advisor: Prof. Hyun Myung, Urban Robotics Lab)

2004.03 - 2008.02 B.S. in Civil Engineering, Hanyang University

Experience

2023.03 - present Assistant Professor, Dept. of Autonomous Vehicle System Engineering, Chungnam National University

2022.09 - present Assistant Professor, Dept. of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Chungnam National University

2016.04 - 2022.08 Senior Researcher, Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering (KRISO)

2015.09 - 2016.03 Post-doctoral researcher, KAIST

Research Interests

• Mobile robots (wheeled, quadruped, thruster-actuated robots)

• Intelligent perception and mapping

• Autonomous robotic navigation (including classic modular stacks and end-to-end approaches)

• Multi-robot systems

Awards

• 2019 선박해양플랜트연구소 최우수논문상

• 2018 Intelligent Service Robotics (SCIE) Best Paper Award

• 2018 한국로봇학회 신진연구자상

• 2015 한국수중로봇기술연구회 우수논문상

• 2015 한국로봇종합학술대회 AFCV(Asian Federation of Computer Vision) Best Robot Vision Paper Award

• 2010 제어로봇시스템학회 학술대회 우수논문상

• 2009 1st Prize, Student Competition in Asia-Pacific Summer School on Smart Structure Technology, UIUC

• 2008 1st Prize, ANCRiSST Competition on Smart Wireless Sensor Technology and Applications, KAIST

Professional Activities

• IEEE RAS, IEEE OES, 제어로봇시스템학회, 한국로봇학회, 한국해양공학회, 대한조선학회

• Journal reviewer for Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Ocean Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Access, International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems, International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Applied Ocean Research, International Journal of Robotics Research

• Conference reviewer for IEEE ICRA (International Conference on Robotics and Automation), IFAC CAMS (Control Applications in Marine Systems, Robotics, and Vehicles), UR (Ubiquitous Robots), RiTA (International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications)