Dr. Junku Yuh is the 5th President of Korea Aerospace University (KAU) that has been one of the top-notch aviation-specializing educational institutes in Korea since it was established in 1952. As of the year 2006, KAU ranks in the top 4 universities nationwide in terms of employment with major leading high technology companies, such as SamSung, LG, KAL, and Hyundai.
Dr. Yuh is an elected IEEE Fellow and received several prestigious awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from World Automation Congress (2004), an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award from former U.S. President George Bush (1991), a Boeing Faculty Award (1991), a UH Fujio Matsuda Fellow award (1991), and an ASEE DOW Outstanding Young Faculty Award (1989). His technical specialty field is robotics. He has published over 120 technical articles and edited/co-edited 10 books in the area of robotics.
Dr. Yuh spent most of his past 26 years in the U.S. and Japan with extensive experience in science, engineering and technology programs and policy matters as a researcher and as a U.S. Federal Government officer. Prior to coming to KAU, Dr. Yuh served as Head (Director) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Tokyo Regional Office. With the increasingly global nature of science and technology, Dr. Yuh plays a critical role in helping to bridge the research and education communities of the United States and the East Asia and Pacific region. The NSF Tokyo Office facilitates research collaboration, reports on science and engineering developments and policies, and serves as a liaison between NSF and agencies, institutions, and researchers of the East Asia and Pacific region. Dr. Yuh was also served as Program Director of the Robotics and Computer Vision programs in NSF's Directorate for Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering in Washington, D.C.
Prior to coming to NSF, Dr. Yuh was Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Information & Computer Science at the University of Hawaii (UH) for 16 years, where he also served as Director of the Autonomous Systems Laboratory. He founded in 2001 and serves as a Board Director of a spin-off company, M.A.S.E. Inc. located in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Dr. Yuh currently serves as Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Intelligent Service Robots (Springer); as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Engineering Design and Automation and the International Journal of Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing; and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Autonomous Robots and the International Journal of Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing. He also served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transaction on Robotics and Automation. He has been an active member of technical societies in the robotics field: served as Program Chair of the 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS); Program Co-Chair of the 2006 and 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. He founded and chairs the technical committee on Underwater Robotics of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
Dr. Yuh received his B.S. degree in Mechanics and Design from Seoul National University in Korea in 1981, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Oregon State University in 1982 and 1986, respectively. |
