People

Career

• 2025 - present, Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, KAIST

• 2019 - 2025, Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, KAIST

• 2017 - 2019, GNC Engineer, Planet Labs

• 2008 - 2014, Associate Research Engineer, AOCS Team, Satrec Initiative 

Education

2017, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Ph.D.

• Thesis : Pointing and Tracking System Analysis and Design for Optical Intersatellite Communication Link 

2010, KAIST, Aerospace Engineering, M.S. 

• Thesis : Star Recognition Algorithm in Dynamic Environment

2008, KAIST, Aerospace Engineering, B.S.  

Research Experience

Planet Labs

• 2017-2019, GNC, star tracker, attitude calibration, SkySat LEOP, SkySat thruster operation

MIT STAR Lab

• 2015 - 2017, Project FLARE(Free-space LaserCom. and Radiation Experiment), Attitude Determination & Control

• 2015 - 2017, Project NODE(Nanosatellite Optical Downlink Experiment), Ground Station Development

• 2015 - 2016, A Tall Ship and a Star to Steer Her By, funded by NASA , Prototype CubeSat

Satrec Initiative

• 2008 - 2014, Attitude Determination & control for DubaiSat-2 and Deimos-2

• 2008 - 2014, Satellite Orbit Determination Using GPS

• 2008 - 2014, System Engineering for Dubaisat-2 and Deimos-2

KAIST

• 2008 - 2010, Star Centroiding for Star Sensor in Dynamic Environment

• 2008 - 2010, CubeSat System design Project

• 2008, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV)