Research Experience
Format Lab, The Pennsylvania State University
Ph.D. student, Aug. 2025 - Current
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ARTS Lab, Ajou University | Korea University
MS student, Sep. 2022 - Feb. 2024
Graduate Researcher, Apr. 2024 - May 2025
Anthoropomorphic Soft Robot for Human-robot Collaborative Architecture
- Led interdisciplinary research with energy system engineering to develop a self-healable, versatile robot hand gripper for construction sites
- Created conceptual diagrams for a research proposal on self-assembly and soft modular 3D printing in construction robotics for space architecture
- Conducted industrial robot arm-controlling experiments
- Develop a machine learning prediction model for soft robot behavior
- Conducted a Spirulina culture experiment to analyze its greenhouse gas reduction effect
Undergraduate Researcher, Jun. 2018 - Sep. 2022
Flexural Responsive Building Facade using Hybrid Soft Actuator
- Collaborated with mechanical engineering on responsive architectural facade, employing a hybrid soft-robot actuator and shape memory material
- Evaluated pneumatic actuator performance with simulation tool(SIMscale)
- Participated in Ajou University in Tashkent(AUT) Campus master plan
- Fabricated 3D-printed attachable kinetic shading module
- Supported monthly interdisciplinary research meetings at the College of Engineering in 2019
Honor and Award
Graduate
- 2025-2026 University Graduate Fellowship (UGF) - Feb. 2025
- The Pennsylvania State University, Graduate School
- 2024 Excellence Graduate Paper Award - Apr. 2024
- Architectural Institute of Korea (AIK)
- Graduate School Best Paper Award - Feb. 2024
- Dean of Graduate School Prize, Ajou University
- AP10 Scholarship (Half-tuition) - Fall 2022 – Spring 2024
- Ajou University, Department of Architecture
- Merit-based Graduate Entry Scholarship - Sep. 2022
- Ajou University, Department of Architecture
- Ajou University, Department of Architecture
Undergraduate
- Third Place, 2022 Architecture Graduation Exhibition - Jun. 2022
- Ajou University, Department of Architecture
- AIK Autumn Conference Best Paper Award Winner - Sep. 2019
- Merit-based Academic Scholarship (Half-tuition) - Spring 2017 – Spring 2022
- Ajou University, College of Engineering
- HiteJinro Scholarship Award - Aug. 2018
- HiteJinro Holdings Co., Ltd.
- Co-BSM Active Learner Scholarship - Nov. 2017
- Ajou University, College of Humanities
- Ajou University, College of Humanities
Competition
- Third Place, Mooyoung CM National Construction Management Competition for University Students - Jul. 2018
- Mooyoung Construction Management Co.
- Third Place, National Academic Conference for University Students in Cost Management Competition - Nov. 2017
- Korea Institute of Construction Engineering and Management (KICEM)