Donghyun Kim

Donghyun Kim has been focusing on developing control architectures for dynamic legged robots. He emphasizes the experimental validation of the developed formulations and the discussion of fundamental problems in robotic systems operating in the real physical world. He devises control systems including sensing, planning, and feedback controllers by accounting for robot dynamics, real-time constraints, and hardware limitations. Kim is extending the research field to perception and machine intelligence to make the robotic system more dynamic and versatile. His ultimate goal is to build robots that can rapidly and autonomously explore over all-type terrains like humans and animals.

Kim joined the faculty of the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) as an assistant professor in 2021. Prior to joining UMass, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the Biomimetic Robotics Lab, MIT, from 2019 to 2020. Kim was a postdoctoral research associate in the Human-Centered Robotics Lab, the University of Texas at Austin, in 2018, from where he received his PhD degrees in 2017. He received the best paper award in Transactions on Mechatronics in 2020. His work published in Transactions on Robotics in 2016 is selected as a finalist of the best whole-body control paper and video. He has served as a reviewer for major conferences and journals in robotics and control.