Dongbin Kim

Education

PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), USA

BS, Aircraft Systems Engineering, Korea Aerospace University, Republic of Korea

Dongbin Kim is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Hartford (UHart). Prior to this, he was a U.S. Army Research Lab Research Fellow at the United States Military Academy at West Point (USMA). His work was to enhance the air-ground robot swarm team for the U.S. Department of Defense (US-DOD) ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) missions. Before joining the USMA, he was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he received a PhD in Mechanical Engineering under the guidance of Dr. Paul Oh, former National Science Foundation (NSF) Robotics Program Director. His PhD research project was to develop a Mobile Manipulating Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (MM-UAV) for bridge inspection and maintenance with support from the United States Department of Transportation (US-DOT) Inspecting and Preserving Through Robotic Exploration University Transportation Center (INSPIRE-UTC).

He is an active volunteer of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS). He was the only creator of IROS On-Demand, the innovative conference platform that hosted 40,000 international attendees during the pandemic. With this outstanding performance, he recently received the Distinguished Service Award from the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ) in 2023.

Interest Areas

• Aerial Manipulation
• Swarm Robotics
• Embodied Human Intelligence
• Mixed Reality (AR/VR)
• Haptics, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Robot Learning-by-Demonstration