Highlights
- 78 refereed & 7 non-refereed publications, one US patent, one book chapter
- Involved in over $14M in successful grants as PI, Co-PI, or SP
- Over 10 years of academic and 6 years of IT industrial professional experience
- Over 400 world-wide media coverage on TeleBot Research
- Challenge Team Leader for ATR Kent (RoboCup, WRS, NASA SUITS Challenges)
- Series editor for "Blockchain Technology", Springer
- Winner of the Distinguished Paper Award with prize from the World Robot Summit
Research Interests
- Robotics, Telerobotics, Physical AI Agent, Human-Robot Interaction
- Human-Centered Computing, Wearable Computing, Merged Reality and Immersive Virtual Experience
- Embedded System, System Security, Sensor Networks, Intelligent System
- Computing and Robotics Education
Education
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA
Ph.D., Computer Science, December 2011
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA
M.S., Computer Science, December 2008
Seoul National University of Science and Technology, South Korea
B.E., Computer Science and Engineering, January 2005
Career Experiences
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, U.S.A.
Associate Professor (Since August 2023)
Assistant Professor (January 2017 to August 2023)
- Director of Advanced Telerobotics Research Laboratory
- Taught courses in Software Development for Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, and more.
Florida International University, Miami, U.S.A.
Director of Discovery Lab (January 2012 to August 2014)
- Directed various projects within the laboratory.
I-BUS (IBM business partner), Seoul, Korea
Project System Supervisor (2002-2004)
IBM Korea, Seoul, Korea
System Administrator (2000-2002)
Patents
Systems for controlling a movable object: Jong-Hoon Kim, Nagarajan Prabakar, S.S. Iyengar, Lorenzo Castillo, Jon Carvajal, Eliana Almario, and Giuseppe Vietri, "Systems for controlling a movable object", US Patent No. 9,934,613, April 3, 2018.
Publications
Funding Activity
Current Grants
- Sui Academic Research Awards (SARAs): PI, $25,000 (2025)
- NSF CSGrad4US: PI, $159,000 (2024-2027)
- Choose Ohio First CS Scholarships: Key Personnel (PI: Javed Khan), $2,064,530 (2020-2027)
Past Grants
Awards & Recognitions
- Sui Academic Research Awards (SARAs) - The Sui Foundation Academic Research Program Funding as unrestricted gift (\$ 25,000 USD for research that advances the Sui blockchain. June 18th, 2025.
- Distinguished Paper Award - World Robot Summit Robot Challenge, 2021. Prize: 500,000 JPY (about $4,000 USD).
- Director's National Visibility Award - School of Computing and Information Science, FIU, 2013.
- Selected Press Coverage - Featured on Mashable, National Fox News "America's Newsroom," and the Discovery Channel.