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 Paper Award, KSME Dynamics·Control·Robot division (대한기계학회 동역학·제어·로봇 부문 우수논문상) 2025

• 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, 2023
  Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (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

• 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 2024

• Associate Editor, IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft) 2024

  Board of Directors

• Editorial Director, Division of Dynamics·Control·Robot, The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (KSME) 2022.1-Present
  편집이사, 대한기계학회 동역학·제어·로봇 부문

• Industry-Academic Cooperation Director, Division of IT-Intelligence Convergence, KSME 2025.1-Present
  산학협력이사, 대한기계학회 IT지능융합부문

  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