IEEE RAS Automation Research Spotlights
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2026 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)
August 17 - 21, 2026, Shenyang, China
December 2025
Sang-Hyun Cho, Inguk Choi, and Woo-Jin Shin presented their research at the 2025 Winter Simulation Conference in Seattle, USA
Inguk Choi presented his research at the 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) in San Diego, USA
November 2025
Dr. Jehun Lee received the Excellence Award in the Doctoral Dissertation Competition at the Fall Conference of the Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers.
Zuhdi Faturrahman, Jimin Park, and Sang-Hyun Cho received the Excellent Paper Award at the 25th Asia-Pacific Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Conference & the 4th International Conference on Smart Manufacturing, Industrial & Logistics Engineering for their work titled 'Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Algorithm Selection in the Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem'
Zuhdi Faturrahman presented his research at the 25th Asia-Pacific Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Conference (APIEMS) in Hangzhou, China
Hong-Yeon Kim, Min-Chan Kim, Jimin Park, Zuhdi Faturrahman, and Seojin Kim presented their research at the Fall Conference of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers in Daejeon, Korea
August 2025
Sanghyun Joo was awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) for his presentation titled 'K-Wafer Cyclic Sequence for Scheduling of Dual-Armed Cluster Tool with Purge Operation'
Sanghyun Joo, Woo-Jin Shin, Hong-Yeon Kim, Jimin Park, Min-Chan Kim, Inguk Choi, and Dong-Ha Lee presented their research at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) in Los Angeles, USA
July 2025
Woo-Jin Shin and Sohyun Jung presented their research at the 11th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control (IFAC MIM) in Trondheim, Norway
June 2025
Sang-Wook Lee, Inguk Choi, Sang-Hyun Cho, Sohyun Jung, Woo-Jin Shin, and Seon-Young Hwang presented their research at the Spring Conference of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers in Jeju, Korea
December 2024
Sang-Hyun Cho presented his research at the 2024 Winter Simulation Conference in Orlando, USA
November 2024
Inguk Choi, Jimin Park, and Sang-Hyun Cho received the Gold Prize at the Joint Academic Conference of the Korea National Defense University and KAIST for their presentation titled 'UAV mission planning for clustered targets with deep reinforcement learning'
August 2024
Duyeon Kim, Jehun Lee, Jeongsun Ahn, Woo-Jin Shin, Min-Chan Kim, Jimin Park, and Ji-Kwang Jung presented their research in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) in Bari, Italy
Sohyun Jung and So-Young Lee presented their research in 2024 International Ergonomices Association (IEA) in Jeju, Korea
Duyeon Kim presented his research in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Automation in Manufacturing, Transportation and Logistices (ICAMaL) in Hong Kong, China.
July 2024
Jeongsun Ahn was selected as a 2024 Kim Young-Han Global Leader Scholar (김영한글로벌리더장학생)
May 2024
Sang-Hyun Cho presented his research in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Yokohama, Japan
March 2024
Woo-Jin Shin presented his research in 7th International Workshop on Production and Logistics in Yokohama, Japan
January 2024
Woo-Jin Shin, Sang-Hyun Cho, Jeongsun Ahn, and Sang-Hyun Joo achieved the Top Award in 2023 Advanced Manufacturing and Intelligence Challenge Achievement Presentation for the project titled 'Dynamic crane scheduling with reinforcement learning'
December 2023
Jehun Lee, Duyeon Kim, Woo-Jin Shin, and Jeongsun Ahn achieved 1st place in the 2023 Simulation Challenge at the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)
Jeongsun Ahn and Woo-Jin Shin presented their research in 2023 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) in San Antonio, USA
Prof. Kim was awarded the 2023 Best Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation Paper in Theory by the technical committee on semiconductor manufacturing automation, IEEE Robotics & Automation Society, for the paper titled 'Scheduling of dual-gripper robotic cells with reinforcement learning'
September 2023
Jehun Lee received an Excellent Prize in the Honkook&Company-KAIST AI contest
August 2023
Duyeon Kim, Woo-Jin Shin, Sang-Hyun Joo, and Hong-Yeon Kim presented their research in 2023 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) in Auckland, New Zealand
June 2023
Jeongsun Ahn, Duyeon Kim, and Prof. Kim were honored with an Honorable Mention for the 2022 IEEE T-SM Best Paper Award for the paper titled 'l1 trend filtering-based change point detection for pumping line balance of deposition equipment'
June 2023
Prof. Kim was nominated as the Outstanding Associate Editor for 2022 IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
June 2023
Woo-Jin Shin received an Excellent Prize in the KIIE Master's Thesis Competition