Professor
Field AI and Robotics Laboratory
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Rm: 6106, Building N7-4
Tel: 042-350-3028
Email: h.oh@kaist.ac.kr
Education
◾ PhD in Unmanned Autonomous Systems, Cranfield University, UK (2013)
◾ MSc in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, Korea (2010)
◾ BSc in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, Korea (2004)
◾ Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, Loughborough University, UK (2016)
Experience
◾ [2025.08 – Present] Associate Professor with Tenure, Department of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, Korea
◾ [2026.04 – Present] Adjunct Professor, Department of AX, College of AI, KAIST, Korea
◾ [2026.04 – Present] Adjunct Professor, GCS Graduate School of Mobility, KAIST, Korea
◾ [2025.08 – Present] Adjunct Professor, Robotics Program, KAIST, Korea
◾ [2025.08 – Present] Adjunct Professor, KI for Disruptive Robotics, KAIST, Korea
◾ [2023.08 – 2024.08] Visiting Professor, School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, UK
◾ [2019 – 2025.08] Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UNIST, Korea
◾ [2016 – 2019] Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UNIST, Korea
◾ [2016 – 2020] Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Aeronautics and Automotive Engineering, Loughborough University, UK
◾ [2014 – 2016] Lecturer, Department of Aeronautics and Automotive Engineering, Loughborough University, UK
◾ [2013 – 2014] Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Surrey, UK
◾ [2010 – 2013] Research Assistant, Cranfield University, UK
◾ [2008 – 2010] Research Assistant, KAIST, Korea
◾ [2004 – 2007] Quality Control Officer, Republic of Korea Air Force, Korea
Research Interests
◾ Autonomy and decision making for unmanned vehicles
◾ Information-theoretic active perception
◾ Learning-based perception, planning and control
◾ Estimation and sensor/information fusion
Honours and Awards
◾ Best Student Paper Award Finalist, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS 2025)
◾ Best Paper Award, The Korea Robotics Society (KROS) (2025)
◾ Best Student Paper Award, International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bioinspired Robotics (SWARM 2024)
◾ UAV Competition Winner, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS 2024)
◾ Best Paper Award, Institute of Control, Robotics, and Systems (ICROS) (2024)
◾ Best Paper Award, Institute of Control, Robotics, and Systems (ICROS) (2023)
◾ IJASS the Most Cited Article Award (2023)
◾ Kwon Wook-Hyun Young Researcher Award, Institute of Control, Robotics, and Systems (ICROS) (2022)
◾ IJASS the Most Downloaded Article Award (2022)
◾ Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Award, Top 50 outstanding academic and research performances from the ‘Academic and Research Support Program’ of the Ministry of Education (2021)
◾ Excellence Award (2nd place), Autonomous Drone Competition organized by DAPA and ADD (2021)
◾ Best Intelligence Paper Award, 9th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA) (2021)
◾ Excellence Award, KAI Aerospace Paper Award (2021)
◾ Outstanding Paper Presentation Award, The Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences (2021)
◾ Grand Prize, the 2019 AI Competition for Space Weather Disaster Prediction, National Radio Research Agency (2019)
◾ Outstanding Paper Presentation Award, The Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences (2019)
◾ Early Career Scientist and Engineer Award, The Korean Scientists and Engineers Association in the UK (2013)
◾ Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Award (Top Prize), International UAV paper competition, Korea Aerospace Industries Association (2013)
◾ KAIST faculty selected academic excellence scholarship (4 students per faculty / granted till graduation) (2002-2003)
Professional Activities
◾ IEEE Senior Member / AIAA Member
◾ Associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (TAES)
◾ Associate editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
◾ Technical editor for International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences (IJASS)
◾ Associate editor for Complex and Intelligent Systems
◾ Guest associate editor for AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, special issues on ‘Machine Learning in Aerospace Systems’ and ‘Machine Learning in Aerospace Applications’
◾ Area chair for 22nd Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS 2026)
◾ Competition chair for IFAC World Congress (2026)
◾ General chair for 12th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA 2024)
◾ Workshop chair for 19th Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS 2023)
◾ Program chair for 10th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA 2022)
◾ Organizing committee for IFAC Automatic Control in Aerospace (ACA 2022), 9th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA 2021), Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems (ICROS 2022~2023)
◾ Journal reviewer for Automatica, IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, Science Robotics, International Journal of Robotics Research, IEEE Trans. on Cybernetics, IEEE Trans. on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Trans on Intelligent Vehicles, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, IET Control Theory and Applications, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE Transactions on Neural Network and Learning Systems, Autonomous Robots, Aerospace Science and Technology, AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, Acta Astronautica, IMechE Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Remote Sensing Letters, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Advances in Space Research, Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, Unmanned Systems, International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems, Annals of Operations Research, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, International Journal of Systems Science, Soft Computing, International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences, Building and Environment, ACM Computing Surveys, Journal of Hazardous Materials.
◾ Conference reviewer for IEEE ICRA (International Conference on Robotics and Automation), IEEE IROS (International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems), IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), RSS (Robotics: Science and Systems), ICUAS (International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems), IEEE ACC (American Control Conference), IFAC World Congress, IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, IEEE/ASME AIM (Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics), ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), IEEE WCCI (World Congress on Computational Intelligence)