Principal Investigator
Sungwook Yang, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Current Research Area
Physical AI, Humanoid Robot, Dexterous Manipulation, Robot Learning, Robot Control, Handheld Robot
Previous Research Area
Medical Robotics, Micro Robotics, Neural engineering, Mechatronics systems for biomedical applications
Ph.D.
2015
Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
M.S
2006
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
B.S
2004
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Contact : swyang@kist.re.kr
Lab Members
Post-Doc.
Si-Hwan Heo
Email : hershey@kist.re.kr
Research Area
Dexterous Hand Manipulation, Prosthetic Hand,
Shared-autonomy, Imitation Learning
Ph.D. Students
Hyesung Lee
Email : hs981002@kist.re.kr
Research Area
Dexterous Manipulation, Reinforcement Learning, Vision Language Action Model
Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=spRlkocAAAAJ&hl=ko
Personal Page
M.S Students
Jihun Ryu
Email : daveryu218@naver.com
Research Area
Continuum Robot, Sensor Mechanism, Handheld Robot, Micro-Manipulator
Joseph Shin
Email : 1joe2shin3@gmail.com
Research Area
Dexterous Hand Manipulation, Language Model-based Robot Reasoning, Imitation Learning
Personal Git & Page
Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VHNvwpsAAAAJ&hl=ko
Minjoon Kim
Cheol Ju Park
Alumni
Master
2026
유정석 (전문연구요원)
2024
이정원 (Ph.D. in Seoul National University)
2022
최인구 (Fraunhofer IFF) 김은찬 (LG Electronics)
2020
윤도균 (ETRI)
Research Intern
2025
주효석 (M.S in DIGIST) 김선우 (Hanwha Aerospace)
2024
안충길 (M.S in DIGIST)
2022
황규빈 (Ph.D in KAIST) 김재희 최나라
Internship Students
2025
송채윤 (Samsung Electronics) 자코비안준호 (M.S in Kwanwoon University)
2024
양재민 (M.S in Korea University)
2023
정해은 (M.S in Yonsei University) 장강민 (M.S in KAIST) 차준근 황원택
2022
박효재 (Ph.D in DIGIST) 양유진 김보슬 권성현 홍현정
장재우 (Hyundai Mobis) 김진 (Ph.D. in KAIST)
2021
박채원 (Ph.D in POSTECH) 노주형 (Ph.D in KAIST) 이영재 장현도
2020
김영훈
2019
경민욱 한원준 김지호 김상혁
2018
한유진
2017
김동섭 오병의 윤한솔 이경동
2016
김희경 윤재영