BIRD News

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Oct 2025. Dr. Junghyeon Ko's paper on wound contraction adhesive materials is accepted to Advanced Functional Materials. Congrats!
​Sep 2025. Jaeyoung joined our group. Welcome!
Mar 2025. Byun lab welcomes new undergraduate interns Junhyeong & Seungwon. Welcome!
Feb 2025. Dr. Byeonghak Park receives Sejong Science Fellowship, congrats!
Sep 2024. Dr. Byeonghak Park receives NRF Postdoc Fellowship, congrats!
Jun 2024. Our contributing paper on zero-Poisson's ratio soft mechanical metamaterials is accepted to Advanced Functional Materials.
Jun 2024. Byun lab welcomes a new visiting scholar M.D. Sejin Choi (SNU hospital). Welcome!
Apr 2024. Dr. Junghyeon Ko receives Sejong Science Fellowship, congrats!
Mar 2024. Byun lab welcomes new postdocs, Dr. Byeonghak Park & Dr. Junghyeon Ko. Welcome!
Feb 2024. Our paper on mechanical computing is accepted to Nature Communications. Congrats!
Jan 2024. Byun Lab welcomes new graduate students, Wonkyeong & Hoyoung. Welcome!
Dec 2023. Our contributing paper on hydrogel metasurfaces is accepted to Nature Communications.
Sep 2023. Our contributing paper on magnetic putty is accepted to Advanced Materials. 
Aug 2023. Bio-Interactive Robotics Lab (BIRLab) is opened.
Aug 2023. Dr. Byun joined the Soft Hybrid Materials Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Korea, as a Senior Research Scientist.
Mar 2023. Our paper on reconfigurable innervation of modular soft machines is accepted to Advanced Intelligent Systems.
Feb 2023. Dr. Byun got awarded a Sejong Science Fellowship from the Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea.
Dec 2022. Our paper on deployable soft origami modular robotic arm is accepted to IEEE-RAL.
Apr 2022. Dr. Byun gave a workshop seminar talk entitled "The simplest ever 4D printing: A route towards inverse design of complex and programmable shape morphing" at IEEE Robosoft 2022.
Jun 2021. Our paper is issued in Advanced Materials Technologies as a front cover article.
Mar 2021. Our paper on underwater swimming robotic sheets  is accepted to Science Robotics. See the Video Clip.
Mar 2021. Our paper on 4D printing is accepted to Advanced Materials Technologies.
Nov 2020. Dr. Byun got awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship.
May 2020. Dr. Byun got awarded a Postdoc Fellowship for Basic Science Research Program from the NRF Korea.