People. Department of Mechanical Engineering at UT Dallas.

WOORAM PARK

wooram.park@utdallas.edu
Phone: 972-883-4625
Mailstop: ECW 31
Office: ECSW 2.150B
800 West Campbell Rd.
Richardson, TX 75080-3021

Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF INSTRUCTION

Education

PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 2008.

MS, Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, 2003.

BS, Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, 1999.

Research Interests

Robotics, biomedical robots, computational structural biology, image processing

Five Most Recent Journal Publications, Book Chapters, and Books

  • Jaeyeon Lee, Jing Wang, and Wooram Park, “Efficient mechanism design and systematic operation planning for tube-wire flexible needles,” Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics 10(6), 065001, 2018.
  • W. Park and G. S. Chirikjian, “An assembly automation approach to alignment of non-circular projections in electron microscopy,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 11(3), 668-679, 2014. [IEEE T-ASE Best Paper Award]
  • O. Bobrenkov, J. Lee and W. Park, “A new geometry-based plan for inserting flexible needles to reach multiple targets,” Robotica, 32(6), 985-1004, 2014.
  • W. Park, C. R. Midgett, D. R. Madden and G. S. Chirikjian, “A stochastic model of class averaging in singleparticle electron microscopy,” International Journal of Robotics Research, 30(6), 730-754, 2011.
  • A. Skliros, W. Park, G. S. Chirikjian, “Position and orientation distributions for non-reversal random walks using space-group Fourier transforms,” Journal of Algebraic Statistics, 1(1), 27-46, 2010.

Major Honors and Awards

  • KSEA Outstanding Chapter President Award 2024
  • IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best Paper Award 2015