Professor

Education

• • B.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering, KAIST, 2009.02.

  • M.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering, KAIST, 2011.02.

  • Ph.D. in Industrial & Systems Engineering, KAIST, 2013.08.

Employment

• • Associate Professor, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, KAIST, 2022.03-

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, KAIST, 2019.09-2022.02

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Management Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, 2015.03-2019.08.

  • Postdoc in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley, 2013.10-2014.12. 

Professional Activities

• • Senior Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2024.11 -

  • Editor, Applied Operations and Analytics, 2024.07 -

  • Editor, IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2025 -

  • Associate Editor, Naval Research Logistics, 2025.02 -

  • Associate Editor, Journal of Scheduling, 2024.11 - 

  • Associate Editor, International Journal of Production Research, 2023.08 -

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2022 - 2024

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021.07 - 2024.06

  • Associate Editor, Journal of the Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers, 2018-2025

  • Associate Editor, IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2017-2024

  • Organizing Committee Member - Special Session Co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2025

  • Organizing Committee Member - Diversity and Inclusion Co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2023, 2024.

  • Guest Editor, International Journal of Production Research, Special Issue on Analysis, Design, and Optimization in Smart and Connected Production and Service Systems, 2022

  • Track Coordinator - MASM: Semiconductor Manufacturing at the WSC 2021, 2024. 

  • Program Committee Member, MASM: Semiconductor Manufacturing, Winter Simulation Conference, 2020 -

  • Committee Member, Korean Institute of Industrial Engineering, 2017-2018, 2021-2024

Honors and Awards

• • Commendation from the Ministry of Science and ICT  (과학기술정보통신부 장관 표창), Nov. 2025

  • 羽軒 Young Investigator Award (우헌신진연구자상), Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers, Nov. 2025

  • 2024 Outstanding Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

  • 2024 Outstanding Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

  • Best Teacher Award, Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering, KAIST, Dec. 2024.

  • 2024 Best Reviewer Award, Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society

  • 2023 Best Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation Paper in Theory, Technical Committee on Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation, IEEE Robotics & Automation Society, 'Scheduling of dual-gripper robotic cells with reinforcement learning'.

  • 2022 IEEE T-SM Best Paper Award Honorable Mention, 'l1 trend filtering-based change point detection for pumping line balance of deposition equipment'. 

  • Distinguished Service Award, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023.

  • Top-cited article published in 2021/22, IJPR, 'Reinforcement learning for robotic flow shop scheduling with processing time variations'.

  • IEEE Senior Member, 2023 -.

  • Technology Innovation Award,  College of Engineering, KAIST, Dec. 2022.

  • Best Academic Award, Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering, KAIST, Dec. 2022.

  • Song-Am Distinguished Research Award, KAIST, Feb. 2022.

  • Best Teacher Award, Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering, KAIST, Dec. 2020.

  • Best Teacher Award <Outstanding Lecture Portfolio>, Sungkyunkwan University, Oct. 2018.

  • Excellence Award for Young Scientists - Korea Federation of Women’s Science and Technology Associations, Seoul, Korea, Nov. 2013.

  • Global Ph.D. Fellowship - National Research Foundation of Korea, Mar. 2011– Aug. 2013.

  • Lam Research Korea Thesis Award - 2nd Prize, SeongNam, Korea, Dec. 2012.

  • Best Student Conference Paper Award Finalist - IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Trieste, Italy, Aug. 2011.