Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
Research Intern, Mentor: Dr. Carlos Nieto-Granda, Dr. Aamodh Suresh
Uncertainty-aware Active Planning with Tightly Coupled Localization and Mapping for Robotic Exploration
Jun 2024 - Sep 2024
Research Intern, Mentor: Dr. Carlos Nieto-Granda, Dr. Aamodh Suresh
Active Inference Framework for Robotic Exploration in GPS-denied & Partially Observable Environment
Jan 2015 - July 2020
Research Software Engineer
Flight System Software Development and Integration
SSoE Outstanding PhD Student Research Award - Only recipient from MAE PhD program, 2025
Paul and Beverly Holmes Endowed Fellowship - Competitive award for academic distinction, 2022-2023
Division of Teaching and Excellence and Innovation Scholarship, UCI, 2023
Travel Award, IROS, 2022
Graduate Admission Fellowship, UCI, 2020-2021
Excellent Research Award, LIG Nex1, 2017
Industrial Scholarship, LIG Nex1 - Only recipient, 2013-2014
Excellent Academic Scholarship, 2010-2012
Korea National Excellence Scholarship - Outstanding academic performance in science and engineering, 2010
ECPS 208 Control Systems for Cyber-Physical Systems (graduate course), UCI, ECPS.
MAE 200A Graduate-level Linear Algebra (graduate course), UCI, MAE.
MAE 195 Racecar Engineering, UCI, MAE.
MAE 80 Dynamics, UCI, MAE.
MAE 150 Mechanics of Structures, UCI, MAE.
IoT-SITY Research Experience Undergraduate (REU) Program: Isabella Villarente (Virginia Tech, ISE)
Mentored Master’s Research: Wei Mao (UCI, MAE)
Mentored Undergraduate Research: Teng Teng (UCI, CS)
Reviewer for Robotics: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), Autonomous Robots (AURO), Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (IJRS), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), and others
Reviewer for Control: Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (TCNS), IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), and others
Reviewer for Mobility & Sensors: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Sensors Letters, and others