Junhyoung Ha is a senior researcher in the Intelligence and Interaction Research Center at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and a professor in the Division of AI and Robot, KIST School at the University of Science and Technology (UST). He was a deep learning researcher in Saige Research, a startup company in Seoul, researching image classification, novelty detection, and image generation using generative adversarial networks. Before that, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, mainly working on modeling and control of surgical robots. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, 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

• 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 - Current

• Associate professor
  Division of AI and Robot, Univerity of Science and Technology (UST), Seoul
  March 2021 - Current

• 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: jhha@kist.re.kr

• Office: L8507, KIST

• Phone: +82-2-958-5383