Jung-Hwan Youn (he/him/his)

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

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Program Committee (Associate Editor)

- IEEE Haptics Symposium '26

- ACM UIST '25, '26

- ACM CHI '25 (LBW)

• Review Editor 

- Frontiers in Robotics & AI (Robot Design) 2023~

• Reviewer

- Nature Communications

- IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

- IEEE Transactions on Haptics

- Soft Robotics

- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter

- ACM CHI, ACM UIST

- IEEE ICRA, IEEE/RSJ IROS, IEEE Robosoft

- IEEE WHC, IEEE HS, IEEE RO-MAN, IEEE ROBIO

TEACHING EXPERIENCES

• Guest Lecture, Interactive Haptic Systems (ECE598), UIUC, 2025

• Teaching Workshop, CS, UChicago, 2025

• Teaching Assistant, Mechatronics System Design (ME203), KAIST, 2018~2021

• Teaching Assistant, Applied Electronics  (ME207), KAIST, 2019~2022

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Distinguished Demonstration Award, IEEE Haptics Sympoisum 2026

• Young Scientist Award, Active Materials and Soft Mechanisms 2024

• Best Poster Award, MRS 2024

• Best Paper Award, Korea Haptics Conferece 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

• 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