PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Junghwan Byun
Senior Research Scientist · BIRD Lab Director
Institution: Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)
Department: Electronic and Hybrid Materials Research Center
Office: L4344
Email: junghwan@kist.re.kr
Tel: +82-2-958-5357
Education
Seoul National UniversitySeoul, Korea
- Ph.D. Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Aug 2017
- Advisor: Prof. Yongtaek Hong
- Thesis: Soft, Fully-integrated Electronic Skin Based on Printing Techniques
- B.S. Electrical Engineering, Feb 2011
Professional Experience
Korea Institute of Science and TechnologySeoul, Korea
- Director, Bio-Interactive Robot Design (BIRD) Lab (Sep 2023 – present)
- Senior Research Scientist, Soft Hybrid Materials Research Center
Korea Institute of Science and TechnologySeoul, Korea
- Sejong Science Research Fellow (Mar 2023 – Aug 2023)
- Soft Hybrid Materials Research Center
- Advisor: Dr. Seungjun Chung
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent SystemsStuttgart, Germany
- Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Sep 2020 – Feb 2023)
- Physical Intelligence Department
- Advisor: Prof. Metin Sitti
Soft Robotics Research CenterSeoul, Korea
- Postdoctoral Researcher (Sep 2017 – Aug 2020)
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University
- Advisor: Prof. Kyu-Jin Cho
Honors & Awards
- Sejong Science Fellowship, Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea