Education 

Ph.D. degree | Electrical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan, 2005.
(Fundamental Research on Human-friendly Motion Control, Supervisor Yoichi Hori)

M.S. degree | Electrical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan, 2000.

B.S. degree | Electrical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan, 1998.

Employment 

• Professor, DGIST (2024.9 – )

• Professor Associate Professor, DGIST (2020.3 – 2024.8)

• Guest Scientist, DLR (German Aerospace Center) (2022.3 – 2023.2)

• Assistant Professor, DGIST (2015.2 – 2020.2)

• Research Professor, Sogang University (2013.5 – 2015.1)

• Senior Engineer, Samsung Heavy Industries (2012.4 – 2013.4)

• Visiting Scholar, The University of Texas at Austin (2010.9 – 2011.8)

• Project Assistant Professor in Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo (2008.4 – 2012.3)

• Research Associate in The Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo (2007.5 – 2008. 3)

• Project Research Scientist in The Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo (2005.7 – 2007.4)

Honors and Awards 

• Best Paper Award for the IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, IEEE IES, 2014

• Technology Promotion Award of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers Japan, 2009

• Best Presentation Award, Intelligent Mechatronics Technical Committee Japan, 2008

• Best Paper Award at IEE of Japan Industrial Application Conference 2005 and 2007

• Best Paper Award at IEE of Japan Technical Meeting, 2005

• Best Paper Presentations, American Control Conference of AACC 2005

• Second Prize in Finalist of Student Forum, IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics 2005

• Best Presentation Award, Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics 2004