Jung-Hwan Youn

I am a postdoctoral researcher in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Before joining, I worked as a post-doc at the Electronics and Telecommnunicaions Research Institute, a national research lab in Korea. I earned my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). My research interests include haptics, soft robotics and human-robot interaction. 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Program Committee (Associate Editor)

- IEEE Haptics Symposium 2026

- ACM UIST 2025

- ACM CHI Late Breaking Work 2025

• Review Editor 

- Frontiers in Robotics & AI (Robot Design) 2023~

• Reviewer

- Nature Communications

- IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

- IEEE Transactions on Haptics

- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter

- ACM CHI, ACM UIST

- IEEE ICRA, IEEE/RSJ IROS, IEEE Robosoft

- IEEE WHC, IEEE RO-MAN, IEEE ROBIO

TEACHING EXPERIENCES

• Guest lecture, Interactive Haptic Systems (ECE598), UIUC, 2025

• Teaching Assistant, Mechatronics System Design (ME203), KAIST, 2018~2021

• Teaching Assistant, Applied Electronics  (ME207), KAIST, 2019~2022

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Young Scientist Award, Active Materials and Soft Mechanisms 2024

• Best Poster Award, MRS 2024

• Best Paper Award, Korea Haptics Conferece 2024

• The Runner-Up Award, IEEE ICRA Workshop 2023

• The 2nd Best Paper Award, Korea Robotics Society Annual Conference 2021

• Best Paper Award in Mechanical Engineering, Applied Sciences 2020

• Best Paper Award, Active Materials and Soft Mechanisms 2019

• Best Student Innovation Challenge Award, IEEE WHC 2019

• The 3rd Place for Wearable challenge Award, IEEE RoboSoft 2019

• Best TA Awards, Department of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST 2019 & 2021

INVITED TALKS

• KAIST, Department of Mechanical Engineering (hosted by Ki-Uk Kyung), 2025

• IEEE WHC Workshop (Emerging Challenges in Wearable Haptics), 2025

• IEEE WHC Workshop (Shape Displays: Challenges for Tangible Interactions), 2025

• UIUC, Computer Science (hosted by Wenzhen Yuan), 2024