• Ph.D., Informatics & Systems Engineering, Cranfield University, 2011

  • Dissertation: Study on Cooperative Missile Guidance for Area Air Defence

• M.Sc., Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, 2006

  • Thesis: UAVs formation guidance using nonlinear model predictive control

• B.Sc., Aerospace Engineering, Pusan National University, 2004

Professional Experience

• Professor,  Cho Chun Shik Postgraduate School of Mobility, KAIST, Mar. 2024-Present

• Adjunct Professor, School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Mar. 2024-Present

• Professor, School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Oct. 2019-Feb. 2024

• Reader, School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Oct. 2017-Sep. 2019

• Senior Lecturer, School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Oct. 2016-Sep. 2017

• Lecturer, School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing, Feb. 2011-Sep. 2016

Research Interests

• Decision making on multi-agent systems

• Urban Air Mobility (UAM)

• Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM)

• Information-driven sensing and fusion

• Precision Navigation and Timing (PNT)

• Improvement of multiple vehicle cooperation

• Information-centric (AI-based) guidance and control

Professional Activities

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

• Associate editor of Chinese Journal of Aeronautics

• Associate Editor, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems

• Associate editor of Frontiers in Robotics and AI: Field Robotics

• Associate editor of Frontiers in Space: Science & Technology

• Associate editor of Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering

• Editorial board member of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

• Editorial board member of International Federation of Automatic Control World Congress

• Editorial board member of IEEE Conference on Research, Education and Development of Unmanned Aircraft Systems

• Editorial board member of International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems

• Editorial board member of IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation

• Executive editor of special issue on "Emerging Trends in Optimal Guidance", Chinese Journal of Aeronautics

• Guest editor of special issue on "Unmanned/uninhabited aerial vehicles", International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics

• Guest editor of special issue on "Navigational Algorithms", Algorithms Journal

• Open Invited Track Session Chair, 23rd IFAC World Congress, 2026

• Award Paper Chair, 23rd IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace, 2025

• Plenary Session Chair, 12th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications, 2024

• Organizing Chair, 9th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications, 2021

•  Programme Co-Chair, 21st IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace, 2019

• General Chair, Workshop on Research, Education and Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems (RED-UAS), 2019

• Programme committee member of International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems

• Cooperative Munition Project member, The Technical Cooperation Program (TTCP)

• Member, IFAC Technical Committee on Aerospace

• Member, IEEE Technical Committee for Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

• Member of Technical Committee on Research, Education and Development of Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Honors and Awards