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Kihan Park, PhD

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Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Contact

508-999-8549

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Education

2019

Georgia Institute of Technology

PhD

2011

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

2009

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Teaching

MNE 482 - Robotics (Fall)
MNE 466 - Control Systems Design (Spring)

Teaching

Programs

Teaching

Courses

Research

Research awards

$ 50,000 awarded by Luna Womens Clinic for Biocompatible Microbots for in vitro Fertilization (IVF)
$ 478,972 awarded by Office of Naval Research for UMassD MUST IV: Cost-effective Elastic Filament Velocimetry (EFV) Sensor Network for Small Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs)
$ 175,000 awarded by The National Science Foundation for CRII: SCH: Multi-modal Soft Tissue Characterization for Non-invasive Breast Imaging
$ 400,230 awarded by Office of Naval Research for UMassD MUST I: A Multi-Modal Sensing Enabled Soft Robotic End-Effector for Highly Dexterous Object Manipulation in Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Missions

Research

Research interests

Medical Robotics
Micro-scale Sensing/Actuation
Machine Learning
Biosignal Processing

Kihan Park is an assistant professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He received his PhD degree in Robotics (Home Department: Biomedical Engineering) from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA in 2019, BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea in 2009 and 2011, respectively. His primary research interests are design/control of robotic systems, micro-scale sensing/actuation, microfabrication, and machine learning for both medical and industrial applications.