About Me
I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering (AE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology, advised by Prof. Panagiotis Tsiotras in the Dynamics and Control Systems Laboratory (DCSL). My research interests lie in path planning, motion planning, and multi-agent path finding problems for autonomous mobile robots.
Research Experience
Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA), August 2018 - Present
Graduate Research Assistant
My Ph.D. research with Prof. Panagiotis Tsiotras focuses on solving path planning, motion planning, and multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) problems using generalized heuristics search algorithms. I am specialized in theoretical development of the heuristic search algorithms with a bounded (sub)optimality guarantee and experimental validation of the developed algorithms integrated in various robotics platforms.
Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA), May 2018 - May 2020
Graduate Research Assistant
During my M.S. research with Prof. Panagiotis Tsiotras, I focused on implementing a machine-learning based trajectory optimization algorithm, Game Theoretic Differential Dynamic Programming (GT-DDP) on a quadrotor for optimal control under unstructured disturbances. My coursework was concentrated on linear/nonlinear control, optimization, and rotorcraft design.
Teaching Experience
Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA), August 2021 - Present
Vertically Integrated Project - Graduate Teaching Assistant
The VIP program is an undergraduate education program designed to provide students from multiple disciplines a research experience in a team mixed of sophomores through Ph.D. students. I have helped students setting up an autonomous navigation stack for a 1/10 scale robotic car platform processed by NVIDIA Jetson TX2, equipped with latest sensors including ZED camera, IMU, and Hokuyo UST-10LX LiDAR. I have also developed an online planning stack and a user-interface in ROS for the Open Motion Planning Library based planners to quickly replan in a dynamic environment, as a part of the full autonomous navigation stack.
Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA), Aug 2017 – May 2018
AE4610: Dynamics and Control Laboratory - Graduate Teaching Assistant
Dynamics and Control Laboratory is a course designed to give undergraduate aerospace engineering students a hands-on experience with system modeling, control system design, analysis, and evaluation of different controllers in various platforms. I assisted instructing the students to use MATLAB/Simulink for design and implementation of PID and LQR controllers.
Professional Experience
LG Chem Ltd., R&D Center (Daejeon, South Korea), July 2016 – Sept 2016
Automobile Battery Validation Team - Intern
Before joining the Dynamics and Control Systems Laboratory, I assisted the LG validation team engineers to collect and analyze the performance data of lithium-ion battery prototypes in extreme environment tests for design validation to meet clients’ requests.