Research Areas: Robot Mechanics, Planning and Control, Vision and Image Processing, and Related Areas of Applied Mathematics

Prof. Frank Chongwoo Park received his BS in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985, followed by his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1991. From 1991 to 1995, he was an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California at Irvine. Since 1995 he has been the Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Seoul National University.

Prof. Park's research interests are in robot mechanics, planning and control, vision and image processing, and related areas of applied mathematics. He has been an IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Distinguished Lecturer, and received best paper awards for his work on visual tracking and parallel robot design. Having served on the editorial boards of the Springer Handbook of Robotics, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR), Robotica, and the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, Prof. Park has also held adjunct faculty positions at the NYU Courant Institute and the Interactive Computing Department at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the current editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, the developer of the EDX course Robot Mechanics and Control I, II. He is also a co-author of the book, "Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning and Control" published in 2017.