awards
Honors, best-paper awards, and scholarships.
Dissertation & top academic honors
- Best Dissertation Award (CoE PhD Best Dissertation Award) — KAIST College of Engineering, 2026 · the highest doctoral research recognition across all engineering departments at KAIST
- Grand Paper Award — Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems (ICROS), 2024
Entrepreneurship & innovation
- 1st Prize (Grand Prize) — 2024 Defense-Technology-Based Startup Competition, Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA)
- Excellence Prize (Minister of Science and ICT Award) — 2024 Challenge! K-Startup Grand Finale, Ministry of SMEs and Startups
Best paper awards
- Best Paper Award — Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology (KIMST), 2025
- Best Paper Award — Society for Aerospace System Engineering (SASE), 2025
- Best Paper Award — Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems (ICROS), 2024
- Best Paper Award (×2) — Society for Aerospace System Engineering (SASE), 2024
- Best Paper Award — Korean Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences (KSAS), 2024
- Best Paper Award — 23rd Int. Conf. on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), Yeosu, 2023
- Best Paper Award — Society for Aerospace System Engineering (SASE), 2020
Scholarships & distinctions
- Paan Foundation Academic Scholarship, 2025
- Cho Jung-hoon Scholarship, KAIST, 2025
- Moral Character Scholarship, KAIST, 2025
- Excellent Teaching Assistant Award, KAIST, 2024
- Cum Laude (graduated with honors), UNIST, 2019