Assistant Professor, Republic of Korea Air Force Academy
EDUCATION
M.S., Ph.D. UCLA Mech. Eng.
August 2018 - August 2023:
- Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, M.S., Ph. D., UCLA ( GPA : 3.908/4.0 )
- Research assistant at Structures-Computer Interaction Lab ( Principal Investigator: M. Khalid Jawed )
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January 2023 - March 2023 :
- Visiting Scientist at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems - Stuttgart, Germany
Research focus (please navigate to Research section of this website) :
1) Bacterial flagella robot
2) Ferromagnetic soft robot simulation
3) ML-based resistive force theory
4) Mooring line dynamics
B.S. USAFA Aeronautical Eng.
- Dept. of Aeronautical Engineering, B.Sc, United States Air Force Academy, 2016
ACADEMIC SERVICES
Reviewer:
Bioinspiration and biomimetics, RA-L, IROS, Journal of Military Robotics Society (JMRS), Journal of Defense Quality Society(JDQS)
AIR FORCEÂ OFFICER (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)
July 2016 - Present
​December 2024 - Current:
- Department Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Republic of Korea
August 2023 - December 2024:
- Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Republic of Korea Air Force Academy, Cheongju
April 2017 - August 2018:
- Office of Educational Planning, Republic of Korea Air Force Academy, Cheongju
July 2016 - July 2017:
- 217th Flight Training Squadron, Sacheon
- 212th Flight Training Squadron, Cheongju
TECHNICAL SKILLS & LANGUAGES
TECH SKILLS : Latex, Matlab, Python, C++, KERAS, Solidworks, CATIA, Abaqus, Microsoft Office, Adobe Premier pro, Inkscape, Keras, Pytorch
LANGUAGE : Korean: Native , English: Professional , French: Novice (DELF B1)