📖 Biography

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I am a visiting researcher at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, working with Prof. Sebastian Scherer in the AirLab. Before joining CMU, I was a postdoctoral researcher at KAIST, where I received my M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Hyun Myung in the Urban Robotics Lab.

My research aims to develop end-to-end autonomy for UAVs that can operate reliably in large-scale, GNSS-denied, and unstructured environments. I develop tightly integrated methods spanning exploration, sensor-fusion-based robust odometry, SLAM, and active SLAM, with an emphasis on field-deployable systems for mapping, inspection, and reconnaissance.

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👨🏻‍💼 Experience

• Visitor, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
  • 2026.07 ~ Current - AirLab
• Postdocoral Researcher, School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST
  • 2025.08 ~ 2026.06 - URL

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🎓 Education

• Ph.D., School of Electrical Engineering in KAIST
  • 2021.03 ~ 2025.08 - Studied at: URL
• M.S., School of Electrical Engineering in KAIST
  • 2020.02 ~ 2021.02 - Studied at: URL
  • 2019.02 ~ 2020.01 - Studied at: USRG
• B.S., School of Electronics Engineering in Kyungpook National University
  • 2012.03 ~ 2019.02 - Studied at: PI Lab

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🤸 Activities

• 2027.05 - Co-Chair of Competitions and Challenges Committee, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
• 2026.07 ~ Current - Associate Editor (AE), IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) (SCIE)
• 2025.09 ~ Current - Associate Editor (AE), Intelligent Service Robotics (ISR) (SCIE)
• 2024.10 - KETI Invited Seminar
  • “GNSS 음영 상황에서 자율비행 무인비행체를 이용한 실내외 맵핑 및 내비게이션”
• 2022.12 - 2022 UVS Symposium Invited Talk
  • “How we won Autonomous Flight Competition in Battlefield Situations”

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👑 Honors & Awards 🏆

• Best paper awards: Five conference papers and one journal paper

• 2026.06 - 2026 Nothing Stands Still Challenge
  • 1st Place, (Team CuRaytor)
  • presented at CVPR 2026
  • Homepage: Challenge, CVPR 2026

  

  2026 CVPR NSS Challenge team CuRaytor (and 2026 ICRA HILTI winner)

• 2022.10 - 2022 Autonomous Flight Competition in Battlefield Situations
  • Only one team that finished the course, (Team QAIST++)
  • from Agency for Defense Development (ADD)
  • Videos: Youtube
  • Articles: Link1

  

  2022 ADD Autonomous Flight Competition in Battlefield Situations Awards Ceremony

• 2019.12 - 2019 AIRR AlphaPilot (Artificial Intelligence Robotic Racing)
  • 3rd Prize/424, (Team USRG@KAIST)
  • from Lockheed Martin, The Drone Racing League, NVIDIA
  • Homepages: Link(Lockheed), Link(DRL), Link(HeroX)
  • Videos: Preliminary-FlightGoggles, RACE1-Orlando, RACE1-Orlando2, Racing Recap PlayLists
  • Articles: Link-1, Link-2

  

  2019 AIRR AlphaPilot Awards Ceremony of 1st race in Orlando

• 2019.02 - The right person of University
  • Grand Prize ($2,000)
  • from SmartKey-Kyungpook Natl. Univ. (Smart Electronics Specialization Projects from CK-1 of Korea)
• 2019.02 - Best Graduates of The Year
  • 2nd Prize/354, (GPA 4.23/4.3)
  • from School of Electronics Engineering, Kyungpook Natl. Univ.
  • Articles: Link

  

  Best Graduates Awards Ceremony

• 2018.11 - 2018 R-BIZ Challenge Turtlebot3 Autorace
  • Mathworks Korea Special Prize ($1,000), (Team EungChang-Ho)
  • from ROBOTIS, MathWorks Korea, ICROS, KIRIA, MOTIE
  • Articles: Link-1, Link-2

  

  2018 R-BIZ Challenge Awards Ceremony