Junhyoung Ha is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST). Previously, he was a senior researcher at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and a professor at the University of Science and Technology (UST). His industry experience includes his role as a deep learning researcher at Saige Research, where he focused on image classification, novelty detection, and generative adversarial networks. Before that, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, working on the modeling and control of surgical robots. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Seoul National University under the supervision of Prof. Frank C. Park.

• Ph. D. in Mechanical engineering (Aug 2015),
  Seoul National University, Korea

• B.S. in Mechanical and aerospace engineering (Feb 2008),
  Seoul National University, Korea

• Assistant Professor
  Department of Mechanical Engineering, UNIST
  June 2025 - Current

• Visiting researcher
  Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
  Feb 2024 - Aug 2024

• Senior researcher
  Center for Healthcare Robotics, KIST, Seoul
  Dec 2019 - May 2025

• Associate professor
  Division of AI and Robot, University of Science and Technology (UST), Seoul
  March 2021 - May 2025

• Deep learning researcher
  Saige Research, Seoul
  May 2019 - Oct 2019

• Postdoctoral research fellow
  Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Medical School
  Sep 2015 - Aug 2018

His research interest covers classic robotics (including nonlinear control, robot dynamics, and motion planning), medical robotics, optimization, computer vision, medical imaging, and deep learning. Current ongoing research includes motion control for snake-like continuum robots, visual servoing in medical application, 3D/2D registration between X-ray and CT, and 3D image reconstruction from 2D images.

• E-mail: j.ha@unist.ac.kr

• Office: Building 112, Room 801-9, UNIST

• Phone: +82-52-217-2417