Recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 2019; Recipient of the Purdue PPI Outstanding Faculty Award in Discovery in 2019; Recipient of the Purdue CIT Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award in 2019; Recipient of the Purdue CIT Outstanding Faculty Award in Discovery in 2019 and 2021; Recipient of the Purdue Focus Award in 2020; Recipient of the Purdue PPI Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration Award in 2021; Recipient of the Purdue Corps of Engagement Award in 2022; Named a Purdue University Faculty Scholar in 2021; Led the Purdue-Hongik Team that placed as a finalist in the NASA Space Robotics Challenge Phase 2; Published over 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers.
Research Experience
Joined Indiana University Bloomington as a Professor in Fall 2025; Faculty member at Purdue University from 2015 to 2025, serving as an Assistant Professor (2015-2020) and Associate Professor (2020-2025); Postdoctoral fellow at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University from 2014 to 2015.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer and Information Technology from Purdue University in 2014; M.S. in Electronics and Radio Engineering with a specialization in Automatic Control from Kyung Hee University in 2010; B.S. in Electronics Engineering from Kyung Hee University in 2008.
Background
Research Interests: Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Robot Learning, Multi-Robot Systems. Specializes in planning and control, algorithms, and learning. Profile: Byung-Cheol Min (goes by 'B.C.') is a Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington, leading the SMART Lab.