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Hak Yi, Ph.D

School of Mechanical Engineering,

Kyungpook National University.  

Daegu, Republic of Korea, 702-701

yihak@knu.ac.kr

+82-053-950-7541

Professional Experience

- Associate Professor      Mechanical Engineering     Kyungpook Nat'l  Univ. (Korea)       2021 -

- Assistant Professor       Mechanical Engineering     Kyungpook Nat'l  Univ. (Korea)        2016 - 2021

- Postdoc                         RoMeLa                               UCLA                           (USA)          2014 - 2016

- Postdoc                         RoMeLa                               Virginia Tech                (USA)          2013 - 2014

- Visiting Scholar            Mechanical Engineering      Texas A&M University    (USA)         2023 - 2024

Educational Background

- Texas A&M University    Mechanical Engineering                   Robotics & Control             2008 - 2012

- Chonbuk Nat'l Univ.       Precision Mechanical Engineering     Robotics                            2005 - 2008

- Chonbuk Nat'l Univ.       Mechanical Engineering                    Robotics                            1998 - 2005

His research lies in the broad fields of Robotics, more specifically in the design and control for a wide range of specialized robots such as high-DOFs humanoids. Recently, he has been interested in improving autonomous robots’ capabilities, especially manipulation functionality on mobile platforms.

He has participated in several successful collaborative projects and research-based robot competitions including: DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials (2013) and Finals (2015), Shipboard Autonomous Fire-Fighting Robot, Dynamic Anthropomorphic Robot with Intelligence, and RoboCup, the international autonomous robot soccer competition where his team won First Place in both the Adult-size Humanoid divisions (2015, 2016) and brought the Louis Vuitton Cup Best Humanoid Award (2016). After joining KNU, he has still participated many hot topic researches in Defense, Industry, and Academia Level.

Association 

  • IEEE Robotics  

  • ASME 

  • Korean Society for Mechanical Engineers (KSME), JMST Associate Editor

  • Korean Society for Precision Engineering (KSPE)

  • The Acoustical Society of Korea

  • Institute of Control, Robotics, ans Systems (ICROS), Associate Editor (Magazine Ver.)

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