Hyungbo Shim
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Adjunct professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences,
PI, Control and Dynamic Systems Lab,
at Seoul National University, Korea
Hyungbo Shim received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Seoul National University, Korea, and held a postdoctoral appointment at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He joined Hanyang University in Seoul in 2002 and moved to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University in 2003, where he is currently a professor. His research interests include stability analysis of nonlinear systems, observer design, robust control via disturbance observers, control system security, and multi-agent systems.
He has served the control community in various editorial roles, including as an Associate Editor for Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, and European Journal of Control, as well as an Editor for International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems. He has also contributed to international conferences as a member of program and organizing committees. He served as General Chair of the IFAC World Congress 2026 and as a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society in 2024. He was an IFAC Distinguished Lecturer from 2023 to 2026. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology.
email: hshim(at)snu.ac.kr
Research Interests
- Networked dynamical systems and distributed optimization
- Emergent behavior of multi-agent systems and its applications to control design
- Robust control based on disturbance observers
- Security of control systems
- Cryptographic applications in control systems
- Nonlinear observers and stability analysis of nonlinear systems
- Data-driven control