teaching

Teaching, mentoring, and outreach.

Teaching assistant — KAIST, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering · 2021–2025

Recognized with the KAIST Excellent Teaching Assistant Award (2024).

  • AE30000 · Flight Dynamics Project (undergraduate) — aircraft design and flight test, fundamentals of aerodynamics
  • AE350 · Aerospace Control Engineering (undergraduate) — UAV control and PID controller design
  • AE552 · Advanced Linear Stability and Control (graduate) — nonlinear control, guidance laws, AI-based GNC
  • AE40005 · Spacecraft Systems (undergraduate) — satellite systems and attitude control

Graduate mentor — Hanwha–KAIST Space Pebble Program · 2022–2025

Mentored middle-school students through hands-on aerospace mission projects — from open-ended ideation through engineering analysis to final presentation — across all four cohorts of this competitive K-12 space-science program organized by KAIST and sponsored by Hanwha Aerospace.

Research mentor — MiliTech Challenge · 2021–2024

Mentored cadet teams of the Korean Science & Technology Reserve Officer corps on aerospace and defense research (reinforcement-learning UAV dogfighting, deep-learning target recognition, loitering-munition design). A mentored team won the Grand Prize (Minister of National Defense Award) at the 3rd MiliTech Challenge (2024).