| Mar 08, 2025 | Our paper, “Design of LIGHTDOG: A High Payload-to-Weight, Hose-less Hydraulic Quadrupedal Robot,” has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) |
| Mar 01, 2025 | I am excited to start a new journey as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, with a dual affiliation in the School of Smart Mobility, at Korea University. |
| Nov 21, 2024 | Our paper, “CusADi: A GPU Parallelization Framework for Symbolic Expressions and Optimal Control,” has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). |
| Sep 02, 2024 | Our paper, “Tailoring Solution Accuracy for Fast Whole-body Model Predictive Control of Legged Robots,” has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). |
| Aug 10, 2024 | I have successfully completed and obtained the Research Mentoring Certificate at MIT. It was truly a great experience for me to further develop and enhance my mentoring skills. |
| Jun 30, 2024 | Our paper, “Contact-Implicit MPC: Controlling Diverse Quadruped Motions Without Pre-Planned Contact Modes or Trajectories,” has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) |
| Jun 30, 2024 | Our paper, “Integrating Model-Based Footstep Planning with Model-Free Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Legged Locomotion,” has been accepted for publication in the IROS 2024, as oral pitch and interactive presentation. |
| Jun 01, 2023 | I am excited to join MIT’s Biomimetic Robotics Lab as a Postdoctoral Associate, working with Prof. Sangbae Kim. |
| Feb 15, 2023 | I am excited to share the wonderful news that I have received the Best PhD Dissertation Award at KAIST. |
| Dec 14, 2022 | Our paper, “Agile and Versatile Climbing on Ferromagnetic Surfaces with a Quadrupedal Robot,” has been published as a Cover Article in Science Robotics. |
| Jul 27, 2021 | Our work, “Real-Time Constrained Nonlinear Model Predictive Control on SO(3) for Dynamic Legged Locomotion,” has been selected for KAIST Breakthroughs, the biannual engineering research webzine, Spring 2021. |
| Oct 25, 2020 | Our paper, “Real-Time Constrained Nonlinear Model Predictive Control on SO(3) for Dynamic Legged Locomotion,” received the IEEE IROS RoboCup Best Paper Award. |