Short Biography

I'm a Principal Researcher at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI). I have also been serving as an Associate Professor in the Artificial Intelligence Major at the KAERI School of the University of Science and Technology (UST), where I lead the PAIR Lab (Physics-aware AI and Robotics Lab). Before joining KAERI, I worked at the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology as a Research Scientist II, and was a Principal Research Engineer at Samsung Heavy Industries Co.,LTD. I earned my Ph.D. from Stanford University. My Ph.D. research focused on stochastic nonlinear optimal control and estimation, with applications to monocular SLAM-based navigation and control. My research interests include robotic manipulation, task and motion planning, human-robot interaction, imitation learning, teleoperation, guidance, navigation and control of mobile robotic platforms, sensor fusion, state estimation, hybrid agentic AI system, and physics-guided/informed neural network.