Name : Seong Young Ko, Ph. D.
Current Position : Full Professor
Affiliation: Mechanical Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea
Contact: sko at jnu dot ac dot kr
Surgical Robotics, Surgical Assistant Robot
Medical Device & Instrument
Intelligent Control, Human-Robot Interaction, Haptics, Telerobotics
Force sensing module for medical application
2002.3 ~ 2008.2 : Ph. D. of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST
2000.3 ~ 2002.2 : M.S. of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST
1996.3 ~ 2000.2: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, KAIST.
2020.10 ~ Present: Full Professor
2015.10 ~ 2020.9: Associate Professor, MeRIC-Lab (Medical Robotics & Intelligent Control Laboratory), (from 2016.8)
2011.10 ~ 2015.9: Assistant Professor, Robot Research Initiative - Medical Robotics Laboratory,
School of Mechanical Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea
2009.1 ~ 2011.9: Research Associate (Postdoctoral Researcher), Mechatronics-in-Medicine Laboratory
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
2008.2 ~ 2008. 12: Postdoctoral Researcher, Robotics & Computer Vision Laboratory
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Korea
2000.3 ~ 2008.2: Research Assistantship, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, Korea
2005.10~2006.2: Visiting Scholar, BioRobotics Laboratory,
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
2002.3 ~ 2006.2: Graduate Teaching Assistantship
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, Korea
2021.10.30: 금상(대통령상), 제 7회 R-BIZ 챌린지
2019.08.31: 우수 의학상(Best Medical Paper Award), 제 10회 대한의료로봇학회 학술대회,
김채원 & 고성영, "경비뇌하수체 종양 제거 수술용 로봇의 이중 굽힘 유연 구조의 기구학 분석"
2019.06.05: 교내봉사 우수 교수, 전남대학교 공대
2018.12.20: 우수 교육연구상, 전남대학교 공대
2018.03.09: 우수연제상, 대한무흉터내시경수술연구회(2018 K-NOTES Conference)
2015.09.19: 우수논문상, 제 7회 대한의료로봇학회
승성민, 박석호, 고성영, 박종오, "뇌 종양 수술을 위한 단일경로 매니퓰레이터 플랫폼"
2010.05.25: Best Paper Award (Oral Presentation), The 3rd Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics, The Royal Society, London, UK
“Software & Hardware Integration of a Biomimetic Flexible Probe within the ROBOCAST Neurosurgical Robotic Suite”
2008.10.17: Honorable Mention (Poster Presentation), The 1st BK Rising Researcher Workshop
The School of Information Technology, KAIST, “Intelligent Grasping Robotic System”
2005.02.18: Bronze Prize, HumanTech Thesis Prize, SAMSUNG Electronics Co.
“Compact Laparoscopic Assistant Robot with Surgical Knowledge-based Control”
2005.10~ 2006.3: Government Scholarship for International Joint Research in USA, Korea Research Foundation
2002.10.18: Best Paper Award, International Conference on Control, Automation and System
“Experimental Evaluation of a Surgical Robot System (ARTHROBOT) for Hip Surgery using Sawbones and Pig Femurs”
2002. 4.25: Honor Prize, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST
2000.3 ~ 2008.2: Government Full Scholarship, KAIST