06/26/2015 I am a guest editor of a special issue on "Integration of Sensors in Complex, Intelligent Systems" in the journal Sensors. See the call for papers.

06/25/2015 I am a guest editor of a special issue on "Sensors and Machines for Human Well-Being" in the journal Machines. See the call for papers.

05/29/2015 I officialy accepted a job offer for an Assistant Professor position from the department of Computer and Information Technology at Purdue University!

04/18/2015 A paper titled "Towards Effective Human-Robot Interaction for Visually Imparied Adults" has been accepted for presentation as a Late-Breaking Report at the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2015), Seattle, Washington, May 26-30, 2015.

02/22/2015 A paper titled "Active Antenna Tracking System with Direcitonal Antennas for Enhancing Wireless Communication Capabilities of a Networked Robotic System" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Field Robotics!

02/08/2015 I am co-orgarnizing a 2015 International Workshop on Communication for Humans, Agents, Robots, Machines and Sensors (CHARMS 2015), Belfort, France, August 17-20, 2015. The CHARMS 2015 will be part of MobiSPC 2015.

01/30/2015 A paper titled "The NavPal Solution for Incorporating Information from Trusted Sources to Enhance Urban Navigation for Blind Travelers", has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2015), Seattle, Washington, May 26-30, 2015. (Link)

01/02/2015 I will give a talk titled "Enhancing Urban Navigation for Blind Travelers with a Smart Phone Aid that Benefits from a Network of Trusted Sources" at the Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting, Wachingon D.C., Jan 11-15, 2015. (Link)

12/23/2014 A paper titled "How Would You Describe Assistive Robots to People Who are Blind or Low Vision" has been accepted for presentation as a Late-Breaking Report at the ACM/IEEE 2015 Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2015), Portland, Mar. 2-5, 2015.

07/11/2014 I am on the Technical Program Committees of 2015 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS 2015) in Zadar, Croatia, April 13-15, 2015.

06/02/2014 I joined the TechBridgeWorld team at CMU. I will be working for the assistive robots for blind travelers project.

05/20/2014 I am an Associate Technical Program Chair of the Sixth International Conference on Automation, Robotics, and Applications (ICARA 2015), Queenstown, New Zealand, February 17-19, 2015.

04/04/2014 I  am on the Technical Program Committee of International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Machine-to-Machine Communications (M2MSec'14), San Francisco, CA, USA, October, 2014.

01/03/2014 A paper titled "Using Directional Antennas as Sensors to Assist Fire-fighting Robots in Large Scale Fires" has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS 2014), Queenstown, New Zealand, Feb. 18-20, 2014.

11/02/2013 A paper titled "Robotic Follower System using Bearing-only Tracking with Directional Antennas" has been accepted for presentation at the 2nd International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA 2013), Denver, USA, Dec. 18-20, 2013.

09/06/2013 A paper titled "Design of a Networked Robotic System Capable of Enhancing Wireless Communication Capabilities" has been accepted for presentation at the 11th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2013) in Sweden, Oct. 21-26 2013.

07/10/2013 My advisor and I were interviewed by Purdue Exponent, the school newspaper, on engagement in firefighting robots. See here for the article.

06/20/2013 Our fire fighting robot was firstly deployed in a real firefighting situation. See here for video in local news coverage. You can also find me around 01:38 from the video.

05/24/2013 The paper presented by Dong-Hoe Kim at the Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems (ICROS) 2013 in Changwon, Korea on May 23-24,2013 was selected as the Best Student Presentation Paper of the conference. The award paper entitled "Development of a Dust Detection Sensor System using Infra-red Sensors" was co-authored by Dong-Hoe Kim, me, and Prof. Donghan Kim. See here for certificates.

04/28/2013 A paper titled "Heuristic Optimization Techniques for Self-orientation of Antennas in Long-distance Point-to-point Broadband Networks" has been accepted for publication in Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier. Joint work with John Lewis, Eric Matson, and Anthony Smith.

04/11/2013 I successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation proposal, titled "Challenges of Networked Robots: Deployment, Communication Range, and Navigation". See here for presentation slides.

04/04/2013 I am on the Technical Program Committee of SAS 2014 (IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium) in Queenstown, New Zealand, in Feb 2014. See here for details.

03/28/2013 I am on the Program Committee of EUSPN 2013 (The 4th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks). See here for details.

02/08/2013 I have joined IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society Technical Committee on Instrumentation for Robotics & Automation.

12/09/2012 A paper titled "Improvement of Violinist Robot using a Passive Damper Device" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems. Joint work with Eric Matson, Jinung An, and Donghan Kim.

11/25/2012 Jointly with Eric Matson, I will host a special session titled "Interfaces between robots, humans and heterogeneous cyber-physical systems" at RiTA 2012, Gwangju, Korea, December 16-18 2012.

11/22/2012 I have joined IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (IEEE RAS) Technical Committee on Networked Robots.

11/15/2012 I was invited to teach 12 Peruvian students for an entire school day about Robotics Programming Language, by Department of Computer & Information Technology, West Lafayette, Purdue University.