Jongwoo Kim, Ph.D.
Education
Ph.D., Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University
B.S., Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University
Korea Science Academy of KAIST (한국과학영재학교)
Experience
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyung Hee University 2021.9-Present
Postdoctoral Fellow, Continuum Robotics Laboratory, Robotics Institute, University of Toronto 2020.9-2021.8
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, PCIGITI Center, The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada 2019.5-2021.8
Graduate Student Researcher, Center for Healthcare Robotics, Korea Institute of Science and Technology 2017.2-2019.2
Awards and Honors
Best Presentation Award, Conference of Society Computational Design and Engineering (CDE) 2025
KSME Dynamics·Control·Robot division, Young Researcher Award (대한기계학회, 동역학·제어·로봇 부문, 젊은연구자상) 2024
Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the Institute of Control, Robotics, and Systems 2024
(제어·로봇·시스템학회, 우수신진연구자상)Best Poster Award, 11th Asian Conference on Multibody Dynamics (ACMD) 2024
LINK 3.0 Capstone Design Contest, NRF Director's Award (LINK 3.0 한국연구재단 이사장상 지도교수) 2023
Engineering Innovation award at the creative comprehensive design contest, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy 2023
(산업통상자원부 창의적종합설계 콘테스트 공학혁신상 지도교수)Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (Next-generation Researchers), National Research Foundation of Korea 2020
NSERC CREATE HeRo Fellowship, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada 2020
Globalink Research Award, Mitacs, Canada 2019
Humantech Paper Award, Bronze Prize, Samsung Electronics 2019
Global Ph.D. Fellowship, National Research Foundation of Korea 2013-2018
Hamlyn Surgical Robot Challenge, Finalist, Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics 2018
Best Paper Award, Korean Society for Precision Engineering Conference 2016
Best Paper Award, Korean Society for Precision Engineering Conference 2013
Ministry of Knowledge Economy Award, Uni-Material Idea Contest, Ministry of Knowledge Economy of Korea 2011
Professional Services
Editorial Board
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2025.1-Present
Associate Editor, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2021.9-Present
Editorial Director, Division of Dynamics and Control, The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (KSME) 2022.1-Present
Associate Editor, Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A 2023.1-Present
Associate Editor, Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology (JMST) 2024.2-Present
Associate Editor, IEEE RAS EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob) 2024
Associate Editor, IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft) 2024
Conference Organizing Committee
Local Chair, Asian Conference on Multibody Dynamics (ACMD) 2024
Program Committee, Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems (ICROS) Annual Conference 2024, 2025
Program Committee, KSME Division of Dynamics, Control, and Robot Annual Conference 2022, 2023
Program Committee, Conference of Society for Computational Design and Engineering (CDE) 2025