Jung-Hwan Youn (he/him/his)

Jung-Hwan Youn is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Univerity of Alberta. Prior to joining the University of Alberta, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Organizing Committee
- Finance Chair, IEEE RoboSoft 2028
- Student Innovation Challenge Chair, IEEE WHC 2027

• Associate Editor (Program Committee)
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2026–

- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2027

- IEEE Haptics Symposium 2026
- ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) 2025, 2026
- ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) LBW 2025

• Workshop Organizer
- RISEx 2026: Haptics for Human–Robot Interaction

• Organizing Committee
- Finance Chair, IEEE RoboSoft 2028
- Student Innovation Challenge Chair, IEEE WHC 2027

• Associate Editor (Program Committee)
- IEEE RA-L 2026–

- IEEE ICRA 2027

- IEEE Haptics Symposium 2026
- ACM UIST 2025, 2026
- ACM CHI LBW 2025

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Distinguished Demonstration Award, IEEE Haptics Symposium 2026
• Young Scientist Award, Active Materials and Soft Mechanisms 2024
• Best Poster Award, MRS 2024
• Best Paper Award, Korea Haptics Conference 2024
• The Runner-Up Award, IEEE ICRA Workshop 2023
• The 2nd Best Paper Award, Korea Robotics Society Annual Conference 2021
• Best Paper Award in Mechanical Engineering, Applied Sciences 2020
• Best Paper Award, Active Materials and Soft Mechanisms 2019
• Best Student Innovation Challenge Award, IEEE World Haptics Conference 2019
• The 3rd Place for Wearable Challenge Award, IEEE RoboSoft 2019
• Best TA Awards, Department of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST 2019 & 2021

INVITED TALKS

• SMART Factory of the Future (FoF), Edmonton, Canada, 2026

• IEEE IROS Workshop Early-Career Talk (Intelligent Interactions in Soft Robotics), 2026

• Korea University (KR), hosted by Prof. Sungjoon Choi, 2026
• IEEE RoboSoft Workshop (Bridging Soft Robotics and Human Computer Interaction), 2026
• University of Alberta (CA), hosted by Prof. John Doucette, 2026
• Saint Louis University (US), hosted by Prof. Jenna Gorlewicz, 2026
• Rochester Institute of Technology (US), hosted by Prof. Qian Xue, 2026
• University of Wisconsin–Madison (US), hosted by Prof. Frank Pfefferkorn, 2026
• Florida State University (US), hosted by Prof. Jonathan Clark, 2026
• University of Chicago (US), hosted by Prof. Pedro Lopes, 2025
• Purdue University (US), hosted by Prof. Yu She, 2025
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US), hosted by Prof. Joohyung Kim, 2025
• KAIST (KR), hosted by Prof. Ki-Uk Kyung, 2025
• IEEE WHC Workshop (Emerging Challenges in Wearable Haptics), 2025
• IEEE WHC Workshop (Shape Displays: Challenges for Tangible Interactions), 2025
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US), hosted by Prof. Wenzhen Yuan, 2024

• SMART Factory of the Future (FoF), Edmonton, Canada, 2026

• IEEE IROS Workshop Early-Career Talk (Intelligent Interactions in Soft Robotics), 2026