Director

2023/08~Current: Associate Professor and F. T. Harrington Endowed Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Joint appointment at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron, U.S.

2015/08~2023/05: Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Joint appointment at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, U.S.

2014/07~2015/07: Research Associate at BioDesign Laboratory, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, U.S.

2010/10~2014/06: Instructor in Radiology, Surgical Navigation & Robotics Laboratory, NIH National Center for Image-guided Therapy (NCIGT), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, U.S.

2008/08~2010/10: Associate Research Scientist at NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) and Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins Medicine), Baltimore, U.S.

2006/11~2008/07: Research Scientist at the Institute for Computer Assisted Orthopedic Surgery (ICAOS), Western Pennsylvania Hospital (Carnegie Mellon University), Pittsburgh, U.S.

2006/01~2006/10: Research Fellow at Neuromotor Control Lab., Mechanical Engineering Department, University of British Columbia (Vancouver General Hospital), Vancouver, Canada

1995/03~1997/06: First Lieutenant, Republic of Korea Army, South Korea

20001/07~2005/11: PhD in Mechanical Engineering (Medical Robotics), Mechatronics In Medicine Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, U.K.

1999/10~2000/12: MSc in Mechanical Systems Engineering, Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K.

1991/03~1995/02: BSc in Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Reserved Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), University of Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea