Dr. Van Du Nguyen is a research professor at the Chonnam National University (CNU), Republic of Korea. He achieved his Master of Science degree from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2009, and earned his Ph.D. from the School of Mechanical Engineering at the CNU in 2018. He was a research assistant at the FMS/PM Laboratory, KAIST (2007–2009), and a researcher at the Robot Research Initiative at the CNU (2014–2018). Afterward, he became a postdoctoral researcher of the Robot Research Initiative in 2018. His research interests include the development of micro/nanorobots for various biomedical applications and targeted drug delivery systems using liposomes/extracellular vesicles.
Prof. Dr. Jong-Oh Park received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea in 1978, his M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea in 1981, and his Ph.D. degree in robotics from Stuttgart University, Stuttgart, Germany in 1987. He was a guest researcher at the Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung, Germany from 1982 to 1987, and a principal researcher at the Korean Institute of Science and Technology from 1987 to 2005. He was a full-time professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering and he is currently the director of the Korean Institute of Medical Microrobotics, Gwangju, South Korea. His research interests include biomedical microrobots, medical robots, and service robotics.
Prof. Dr. Eunpyo Choi is an Associate Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea. He completed his Ph.D. studies in Mechanical Engineering from the Sogang University, Seoul (2015). He worked as a Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA (2015–2016). His research interests include medical micro/nano robotics and micro/nanofluidics.
Prof. Dr. Byungjeon Kang is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Data Science and College of AI Convergence, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea. Prof. Dr. Byungjeon Kang earned from the Chonnam National University, a BS in Mechanical Engineering (2008) and a MS in Mechanical Engineering (2010). Prof. Dr. Byungjeon Kang completed a Ph.D. in Biorobotics from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy (2015). Prof. Dr. Byungjeon Kang’s research interests include microrobot; non-contact manipulation, image processing.
