Dr Jongrae Kim

Profile

Experience 

• Associate Professor, Aerospace Systems Engineering, Institute of Design, Robotics & Optimisation, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, Since September 2014
• Lecturer (corresponding to assistant professor), Biomedical Engineering/Aerospace Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK, October 2007 - August 2014
• Research Associate, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK, January 2004 - September 2007
• Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, August 2002 - December 2003
• Research Assistant, Texas A&M University at College Station, College Station, TX, USA, January 1999 - August 2002
• Aircraft Maintenance Officer, Republic Of Korea Air Force, Korea, August 1991 - July 1994

Education 

• PhD, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, August 2002
• MEng, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Inha University, Incheon, Korea, August 1996
• BEng, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Inha University, Incheon, Korea, February 1991

Visiting

• Industrial Secondment, Clyde Space Ltd., Glasgow, UK, July - December 2012, funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering
• Visiting Scholar, Laboratory of Systems & Control, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, Summer (6 weeks) 2012 and June (4 weeks) 2011
• Regular Visiting Scholar, Laboratory of Systems Biology & Bio-Inspired Engineering, KAIST, Daejon, Korea, Since 2008
• Visiting Researcher, Systems Biology Lab, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, July - October 2006

Responsibilities

• Study Abroad Coordinator
• Deputy Diretor of Postgraduate Research Studies

Research interests

Details on each research topic in the following list can be found in: https://sites.google.com/site/robustlabjongrae/home/research

• Robustness Analysis for dynamical systems
• Uncertainty modelling & identification using machine learning
• Optimal mission planning for UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) and UUV (Unmanned Underwater Vehicle)
• Navigation error correction algorithm for UUV (Unmanned Underwater Vehicle)
• Optimal estimation using parallel sensors & parallel algorithm
• Indoor navigation
• Human brain structure analysis using graph theory
• Human cognition dynamics modelling & analyiss
• Caenorhabditis elegans locomotion modelling & analysis

• Balancing the impact of City Infrastructure Engineering on Natural systems using Robots

Qualifications

• PhD, Aerospace Engineering

Professional memberships

• IEEE Senior Member

Student education

Delivering modules in dynamics and control in aerospace and mechanical engineering.

Research groups and institutes

• Institute of Design, Robotics and Manufacturing

Current postgraduate researchers

• Ekene Onyiriuka
• CHINEDU JUSTICE MBAM