Published “A new bundle picture for the drone” in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2023), studying drone dynamics geometry using Hopf fibration
Published “Globally Exponentially Convergent Continuous Observers for Velocity Bias and State for Invariant Kinematic Systems on Matrix Lie Groups” in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2021)
ICRA 2021 paper “Robust Navigation for Racing Drones based on Imitation Learning and Modularization” (with Master’s student Tianqi Wang)
Recipient of the 2020 Academic Innovation Award from the Korean Institute of Artificial Intelligence
Won Best Poster Paper Award at the 2020 KIIS Fall Conference for “The Adaptive Dynamic Programming Toolbox” (with PhD student Xiaowei Xing)
Team K-Drone won the top prize (Minister of Defense Acquisition Program Administration Award) in the 2020 Autonomous Flight Technology Competition in Battlefield Environments
Finalist in the 2019 Lockheed Martin AlphaPilot AI Drone Racing Challenge (with Master’s students Muhammad Usama and Hwimin Kim)
Authored “Deep Neural Networks in a Mathematical Frame” (Springer, 2018), one of the first books to establish the mathematical foundations of deep learning
Multiple papers accepted at top-tier conferences: ICRA 2025 (3), ICRA 2024 (1), CDC 2022 (1), IROS 2022 (2), AAAI 2022 (1)