🔘 Education

• B.S.  in Mechanical Engineering (Mar. 2000 ~ Feb. 2007)

     Kyungpook National University, South KOREA.  (SUMMA CUM LAUDE)

• M.S.  in Mechanical Engineering (Mar. 2007 ~ Jan. 2009)

     KAIST, South KOREA.  (Supervisor: Prof. Seibum Choi)

• Ph.D.  in Electrical Engineering (Oct. 2009 ~ Sep. 2012) 

     The University of Tokyo, JAPAN.  (Supervisor: Prof. Yoichi Hori, Prof. Hiroshi Fujimoto)      (Best Graduate Student Award, Department of Electrical Engineering, 2012)

🔘 Employment

• Associate professor in DGIST. (Aug. 2025 ~ present)

• Associate professor in Yeungnam university. (Mar. 2021 ~ Jul. 2025)

• Assistant professor in Yeungnam university. (Mar. 2015 ~ Feb. 2021)

• Senior Engineer in Mechatronics R&D Center, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Corp., Ltd.  (Oct. 2012 ~ Feb. 2015)

• Control Engineer in MANDO Corp. (Jan. 2009 ~ Sep. 2009)

🔘 Honors and Awards

• Designation of “On-road holonomic driving system joint research Laboratory”, by Hyundai Motors Group (Feb. 2024)

• 2017 한국자동차공학회 학회발전 기여상 수상 (2017.11.16)

• 2014 Best Paper Award for the IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics. (Nov. 2014)

• Best graduate student award, Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Tokyo. (Sep. 2012)

• Grand prize in “1st Hyundai Global Forum in Japan”, Hyundai Motors. (Jun. 2012)

🔘 Scientific Services (as an Editor or a journal reviewer)

• Associate editor of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine (Jan. 2022 ~ present)

• Associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (Jun. 2019 ~ present)

• IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics.

• IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology.

• IEEE/ASME Transaction on Mechatronics.

• IEEE Transaction on Intelligent Transportation Systems.