Employment

• "Ph.D., Dept. Electronics and Electrical Engineering, " POSTECH, 1997.
• "M.S./B.S., Dept. Electronics Engineering, " KNU, 1992/1990.

• Nonlinear Dynamical Systems (Neuro/Fuzzy Systems, Complex Networks, Multi-Agent Systems, Chaos, etc)
• Control Theories
• Cyber-Physical Systems/Artificial Intelligence
• Intelligent Vehicles/Embedded Systems

Citation Record, As of November 2024.

• H-index: 109
• Total Citations: Over 48,600

Major Journal Editorial Activities

Guest Editor	Special Issue on "Development and Applications of High-order Fully Actuated System Theory", for Control Engineering Practice (CEP), Elsevier.
Lead/Receiving Editor	Nonlinear Dynamics (NODY), Springer.
Associate Editor	IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TC), IEEE.
Associate Editor	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), IEEE.
Associate Editor	IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (TFS), IEEE.

Recent Upcoming Conference Activities

Program Committee: Member	11th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Techologies (CoDIT 2025) , Split, Croatia, July 15-18, 2025.
Steering Committee: Member	The Fourth International Nonlinear Dynamics Conference (NODYCON 2025), Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ, USA, June 22-25, 2025.
Program Committee: Member	37th Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC) , Xiamen, China, May 16-19, 2025.
Program Committee: Member	The 21th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), November 18-20, 2024, Porto, Portugal.

Listed In:

• "World's Top Scientists on Stanford University List since 2019".
  For detail information, visit the site: World's Top 2% Scientists, Elsevier. The List
  * Ranked 2,283th in 2024. (Ranked 11th among scholars affiliated with Korean institutions).
  * Ranked 2,277th in 2023.


• 2022 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) in the 3 main categories of Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics
  * One of 2 Recipients in Korea chosen more than 2 main categories.
  * Only 32 researchers being named as HCR in 3 categories in the world.


• 2021 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) in the 3 main categories of Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics
  * The Only Recipient in Korea chosen more than 2 main categories.
  * Only 23 researchers being named as HCR in 3 categories in the world.


• 2020 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) in the 3 main categories of Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics
  * The Only Recipient in Korea chosen more than 2 main categories.
  * Only 9 researchers being named as HCR in 3 categories in the world.


• 2019 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) in the 3 main categories of Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics
  * The Only Recipient in Korea chosen more than 2 main categories.
  * Only 11 researchers being named as HCR in 3 categories in the world.


• Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers: 2017, 2018
• Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers: 2015, 2016

Selected Recent Awards and Honors

• June 21, 2023, Best Editor Award of the Journal, Nonlinear Dynamics, awarded from Springer and Nonlinear Dynamics
  
• September 22, 2022, YU'RE Honors: Best Researcher of the year 2022, awarded from Yeungnam University
  
• September 14, 2021, YU'RE Honors: Best Researcher of the year 2021, awarded from Yeungnam University
  
• December 30, 2019, The Award and Nameplate of Merit for Yeungnam University Development
  (*: The first and sole Professor awarded from Yeungnam University)

Recent Principal Professional Services

Current Services at University/School/College

• Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering of Graduate School, Yeungnam University: (2021. 2 - 2023. 1)
• Chair, Department of Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Yeungnam University: (2021. 2 - 2023. 1)

• Inviting applicant for the position of Post-Doctor on the topics: Control Applications or AI.
• Inviting applicant for the position of Ph.D. degree

• Recent Ph.D. Graduated Students
• Y. Choi
  • Graduated Ph.D., April 2024.
  • Thesis title: ``3D LiDAR-Camera Extrinsic Calibration Based on a Single Orthogonal Trihedron with Checkerred Patterns.''
• H. Kim
  • Graduated Ph.D., April 2019.
  • Thesis title: ``Camera based Traffic Light Recognition and LiDAR based Color Image Generation Using Deep Learning Networks''
• Z. Tang
  • Graduated Ph.D., October 2017.
  • Thesis title: ``A Study on Synchronization of Lur'e Dynamical Networks under Pinning Control''
• T. Lee
  • Graduated Ph.D., February 2015.
  • Thesis title: ``A study on sampled-data control to nonlinear systems''