Advisor

Dr. Daehyung Park (박대형)

Associate Professor, School of Computing: Sept. 2024 ~ Present

Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of AI: 2020 ~ Present

Adjunct Professor, KAIST Robotics Program: 2020 ~ Present

Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Advanced Security Science and Technology: 2023 ~ Present

Director, RIRO Lab (Robust Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory): 2020 ~ Present

Deputy Director, KI for Robotics: Sept. 2025 ~ Present

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Assistant Professor, School of Computing: Sept. 2020 ~ Aug. 2024

Education

• Ph.D. in Robotics, the School of Interactive Computing,
  Georgia Institute of Technology (Advisor: Dr. Charles C. Kemp): 2012-2018
• M.S. in Computer Science, Concentration in Computer Science Intelligent Robotics (CSIR)
  University of Southern California (Advisor: Stefan Schaal): 2006-2008
• B.E. in Systems Science, Concentration in Systems Science and Applied Informatics
  Osaka University (Advisor: Prof. Tatsuo Arai): 2002-2006

Employment

• Postdoctoral Associate, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL),
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, worked with Prof. Nicholas Roy: 2018-2020
• Research Engineer, Mechatronics R&D Center,
  Samsung Electronics: 2008-2012

Awards

• Best Student Paper Award, The International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA) 2024
• Outstanding Planning Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023
• Google Research Scholar Award, Google Inc. 2022
• Outstanding Navigation paper finalist, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2022
• Best Student Paper Award, The International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA) 2022
• Outstanding Paper Award, KRoC (한국로봇학회, 우수논문상) 2022
• Academic Achievement Award, University of Southern California 2008
• Government-sponsored full scholarship by Japanese and Korean governments 2001-2006

Professional Activities

• Demo Chair, Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2025
• Director, Korean Robotics Society 2025-Present
• Program Chair, The International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA) 2024
• Organizer, “Designing Interactive Humanoids: Learning Tasks through Interaction with Humans”, Workshop at Humanoids 2024
• Organizer, “Experiment-oriented Locomotion and Manipulation Research”, Workshop at RSS 2023
• Organizer, “Human-Agent/Robot Interaction in Healthcare and Medicine”, Special session at RO-MAN 2023
• Member, Award Subcommittee for ICRA 2022, 2023
• Member, Organizing Committee for KRoC 2022-2024
• Member, Organizing Committee for RiTA 2022, 2025
• Member, Program Committee for the NeurIPS 2021 Workshop on Metacognition in the Age of AI 2021

Teaching

• CS577: Robot Learning and Interaction (Syllabus Link!)
• CS477: Introduction to Intelligent Robotics (Syllabus Link!)
• CS470: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Syllabus Link!)