Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
Journeyman Fellow, Mentor: Dr. Carlos Nieto-Granda, Dr. Aamodh Suresh
Scalable Uncertainty-Aware Information-Theoretic Active Robot Exploration with Tightly Coupled Localization and Mapping
Jun 2024 - Sep 2024
Research Intern, Mentor: Dr. Carlos Nieto-Granda, Dr. Aamodh Suresh
Active Inference for Trustworthy Robot Exploration in Unknown Environments
Jan 2015 - July 2020
Research Software Engineer
Flight Systems Software Development, Validation, 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 106 Mechanical Systems Laboratory, 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), Journal of the Franklin Institute, and others
Reviewer for Mobility & Sensors: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Sensors Letters, and others