Career

2019~Present Professor, Dept. of CEE, KAIST

2025~Present Adjunct Professor, KAIST Space Institute

2023~Present Adjunct Professor, KAIST Institute for Robotics

2023~2025 Director, Robotics Program, KAIST

2023~Present Adjunct Professor, G-School, KAIST

2022~Present Adjunct Professor, Human-Robot Interaction Research Center, KAIST

2019~Present Adjunct Professor, Robotics Program, KAIST

2019~Present CTO, Bio-Rob Inc.

2016~2019 CEO, Bio-Rob Inc.

2016~2017 Visiting Professor, Stanford, AI Lab

2005~2019 Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, KOREATECH

2003~2005 Research Professor, KAIST

2002~2003 Visiting Professor, German Aerospace Center

2002~2003 Post-Doc, University of Washington

Honors and Awards

• 2025 Best Paper Award, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
• 2025 IEEE Fellow
• 2022 KAIST special award for outstanding faculty in social service
• 2021 IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine Best Paper Award
• 2020 IEEE ICRA Outstanding Reviewer Award
• 2019 KROS Robotics Innovation Award
• 2019 HYUNDAI Autonomous Vehicle Competition, 1st place
• 2017 HYUNDAI Autonomous Vehicle Competition, 2nd place
• 2015 IEEE, Most Active Technical Committee Award (TC-Haptics Co-chair)
• 2010 IEEE Haptic Symposium, Best Poster Award

Professional Services

2025~present 

• Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Haptics
• AdCom, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
• President, Korea Haptics Society

2025~2026 Program Chair, BIOROB 2026

2025~2026 Program Chair, RoboSoft 2026

2024 General Co-chair, UR2024

2022~Present Director, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society MAB Distinguished Lecturer Program

2020~2024 Associate Editor, Mechatronics

2020~Present Excellence Committee member, UK Best PhD in Robotics Award

2018~Present Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

2016~Present Section Editor, Springer Encyclopedia of Robotics (Robotic Interfaces)

2014~Present Associate Editor, Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems Engineering

2014~Present Steering Committee, Asia Haptic Society

2021~2024 Co-chair, IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics

2021~2024 Vice-President, Korea Haptic Society

2020~2025 Senior Editor, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

2019~2021 Steering Committee, World Haptic Society

2018~2021 Editor-in-Chief, World Haptics Conference

2018 General Chair, 2018 AsiaHaptics

2016~2018 Associate Editor-in-chief, World Haptics Conference

2014~2017 Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Haptics

2014~2017 Expert External Reviewer, Robotics Program in the European Commission