Director

Prof. Hyosung Ahn

Affiliation: Department of Mechanical and Robotics Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)

Major Experiences

• IFAC 2026 World Congress IPC Co-chair
• Former President of ICROS Technical Committee on Control Theory (TCCT)
• Former Director of GIST Unmanned Vehicle Research Center

Research Capabilities

• Selected by Elsevier as the World's Top 0.45% Researcher (Top 1% for 5 consecutive years)
• Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of IJCAS (Q2 SCI)
• Recipient of the Presidential Commendation of the Republic of Korea

Global Network

• Finance (Co-) Chair, IEEE Int. Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2020 & 2023.
• Editor for SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration.
• Active in various international conference organizing committees including ICRA, IFAC, and CDC.