cv | Hyungbo Shim

Education and Career

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University, 1993
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University, 1995
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University, 2000
Post-doctoral researcher, CCEC, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2000 – 2001
Assistant professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Division, Hanyang University, 2002 – 2003
Assist./Assoc./Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, 2003 – current
Visiting researcher, Coordinated Science Laboratory, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2010 - 2011

Honor and Awards

Young Researcher Scholarship from Korea Research Foundation, Oct. 1998 – Sep. 1999.
Best Paper Award at the Poster Session, 4th SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications, Jaxsonville, Florida, 1998.
Bronze Prize at Samsung Humantech Thesis Contest, 2000.
One of Five Finalists for Student Best Paper Contest, American Control Conference, Chicago, 2000.
Distinguished Dissertation Award, School of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National Univ., 2000.
Best Paper Award, SICE-ICCAS Joint Conference, 2006.
Outstanding reviewer award of Automatica, 2007.
Semi-plenary invited speaker of IFAC NOLCOS, 2007.
Excellent Teaching Award, College of Engineering, Seoul National Univ., 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2023.
대한전기학회 논문상, 2008
정보 및 제어 학술대회 우수 논문상 2007, 2008, 2009
제 19회 과학기술우수논문상 (한국과학기술단체총연합회) 2009
Kwon Wook Hyun Young Researcher Award (권욱현 젊은 연구자 논문상), ICROS, 2009
Ko Myung Sam Scientific Award (고명삼 학술상), ICROS, 2012
제10회 신양공학학술상, 서울대학교, 2014
Outstanding Paper Award, Int. Conf. on Control, Automation and Systems, 2015
Guest professor, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University, Japan, 2016
JSPS(Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) International Fellowship, 2017
IEEE 학술활동상, ICROS, 2022
Fellow of ICROS, 2022
IFAC Distinguished Lecturer, 2023-2026
Member of Korean Academy of Science and Technology, 2024
IEEE Fellow, 2026 (for contributions to control theory on multi-agent systems and disturbance observers)

Activities

Associate Editor of Automatica (2014~2018), IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control (2012~2013), Int. Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control (IJRNC) (2009~2012), European Journal of Control (2008~2010), Int. Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems (2006~2007)
Editor of Int. Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems (2011~2013)
Editorial board member for Korean journal of ICASE (2003), English journal of ICASE (2002)
IFAC Publications Committee Member (2017 - ), Conference Board Member (2020 - 2023), Technical Board Member (2023 - ) and Technical Committee Member on 2.3 Nonlinear Control Systems (2006 - 2011, 2015 - )
Member of Technical Committee on Nonlinear Systems and Control (2019~ ), and on Security and Privacy (2021~ ), IEEE Control Systems Society
Co-program chair of ICCAS 2020, Program chair of ICCAS 2014, Award committee member of ICCAS 2008, Organizing committee member of ICCAS 2007, IPC member of SICE-ICCAS 2006
Workshop chair of IEEE CDC 2020 and IEEE CDC 2024
Associate Editor for European Control Conference 2025, European Control Conference 2023, European Control Conference 2021, European Control Conference 2018, European Control Conference 2016, European Control Conference 2015, European Control Conference 2014, European Control Conference 2013, European Control Conference 2009
IPC member of IFAC NOLCOS 2025, IFAC MICNON 2021, IFAC World Congress 2020, IFAC MICNON 2018, IFAC NOLCOS 2016, IFAC NOLCOS 2010, IFAC NOLCOS 2007
Interactive Paper Prize Committee member of IFAC World Congress 2011, IT Support Chair (NOC member) and Vice IPC Chair (IPC member) of IFAC World Congress 2008
IPC member of IEEE CDC 2022, IEEE CDC 2021, SWARM 2019, NecSys 2019, SICE Annual Meeting 2019, SICE Annual Meeting 2018, American Control Conference 2018, SWARM 2017, NecSys 2016, MTNS 2016, SWARM 2015, MTNS 2014, Asian Control Conference 2011, IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control 2010, IEEE Int. Symp. on Industrial Electronics 2009, Asian Control Conference 2009
Steering Committee member of Controlo’2022, Organizing Committee member of ASCC 2022, ICCAS 2022
IPC co-chair of NecSys 2018
대한전기학회 정보 및 제어부문회 학술 이사 (2009.1.1 - 12.31)
국제협력이사/부회장 제어로봇시스템학회 (2016, 2024, 2025)
대한전기학회/대한전자공학회 주관 정보 및 제어 학술대회(CICS) 조직위원회, 2009
제어이론연구회, 회장, 제어로봇시스템학회 (2010 - 2013)
서울대학교 전기정보공학부 학생부학부장 (2014 - 2016)
Director, Haedong Japan Technology Information Center (2018 - 2021)
Director, Automation and Systems Research Institute (2020 - 2022)
Director, Engineering Research Center for Advanced Control and Instrumentation (2016 - 2020)
General Chair of IFAC World Congress 2026
Member of Board of Governors, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2024

Interview

People in Control, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Volume: 44, Issue: 6, December 2024 https://doi.org/10.1109/MCS.2024.3465808
`사이버 물리 시스템 보안 연구’, Insight Korea, 2019년 5월 https://www.insightkorea.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=36149

Talks

Invited speaker, University of California, Santa Cruz, Dec 4, 2025
Plenary speaker, 29th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, October 9, 2025
Invited speaker, Chinese Control Conference, Chongqing, July 29, 2025
Invited speaker, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, July 7, 2025
Plenary speaker, 4th Conference on Fully Actuated System Theory and Applications, Nanjing, China, July 5, 2025
Invited speaker, Sun Yat Sen University, Shenzhen, China, May 20, 2025
Invited speaker, Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC), Xiamen, China, May 18, 2025
Invited speaker, China-Japan-Korea Joint Workshop, Dalian University of Technology, April 25, 2025
Invited speaker, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy, December 13, 2024
Invited speaker, Chinese Academy of Science, China, November 7, 2024
Invited speaker, Peking University, China, November 7, 2024
Invited speaker, Beihang University, China, November 6, 2024
Invited speaker, History Forum (online), IEEE CSS Day 2024, October 22, 2024: “From Consensus to Coordination of Heterogeneous Multi-agent Systems”
Invited speaker, IBCAST, Murree Hills, Pakistan, August 21, 2024 (partly supported by IFAC DLP)
Plenary speaker, Asian Control Conference, Dalian, China, July 7, 2024
Plenary speaker, SICE ISCS 2024, Hiroshima, Japan, March 18, 2024
Invited speaker, Joint IFAC/IEEE CSS webinar series, Feb 26, 2024: “Coordination of heterogeneous multi-agent systems via blended dynamics theorem (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj_vzt0T3cY)”
Invited speaker, ICCAS 2023, Yeosu, Korea
Invited speaker, Australian National University, Feb 3, 2023
Plenary speaker, 6th International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics (SWARM6), Beppu, Japan, Jan 26, 2023
Plenary speaker, International Automatic Control Conference (CACS 2022), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Nov 5, 2022
Invited speaker, UNIST, Jan 24, 2022
Invited speaker, Hanyang University, Seoul, Sept 23~24, 2021
Plenary speaker, Third IFAC Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control of Nonlinear Systems (MICNON 2021), Tokyo (on-line), Japan, Sept 17, 2021 (video)
Plenary speaker, ICROS Annual Conference, Yeosu, Korea, June 24, 2021
Invited speaker (on-line), Peking University, China, November 30, 2020
Invited speaker (on-line), Systems and Control Center, MINES ParisTech, France, July 6, 2020
Plenary speaker, 4th Chinese Symposium on Nonlinear Systems and Control, Shenyang, China, July 22-23, 2019
Invited lecturer, IFAC ASEAN School of Advanced Control, Bangkok, Thailand, Jan 15-16, 2019
Invited speaker, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, July 2, 2018
Invited speaker, University of Groningen, Netherlands, May 8, 2018
Invited speaker, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, USA, April 9, 2018
Invited speaker, Decision and Control Lecture Series, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA, April 4, 2018
Invited speaker, the 4th IEEJ international workshop on Sensing, Actuation, Motion Control, and Optimization (SAMCON2018), Japan, March 7, 2018
Invited speaker, Keio University, Japan, Nov. 28, 2017
Invited speaker, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, Nov. 27, 2017
Invited speaker, Osaka University, Japan, Nov. 21, 2017
Invited speaker, Kyoto University, Katsura Campus, Japan, Nov. 16, 2017
Invited speaker, Nagoya University, Japan, Nov. 9, 2017
Invited speaker, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Izuka, Japan, Oct. 30, 2017
Invited speaker, Kyoto University, Yoshida Campus, Japan, Oct. 26, 2017
Invited speaker, 1st Japan-Korea Joint Symposium on Distributed and Networked Systems and Control, GIST, Korea, June 16-17, 2017
Invited speaker, SICE Int. Symposium on Control Systems, Okayama, Japan, March 6-9, 2017
Invited speaker, CMC Workshop on Collective Dynamics of Many-body Systems and Related Topics, SNU, November 10, 2016
Invited speaker, ICE Colloquium, DGIST, April 5, 2016
Invited Seminar, GIST, April 4, 2016
Invited speaker, ECE Faculty Colloquium, SNU, March 14, 2016
Invited speaker, ECE Colloquium, UNIST, Oct. 27, 2015
Invited speaker, 13th UoT-SNU Joint Seminar, The University of Tokyo, June 29, 2015
Invited speaker, Int. Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems, DGIST, June 3, 2015
Invited speaker, DGIST Global Innovation Festival, DGIST, Nov. 20~21, 2014
Invited seminar, Keio University, Japan, March 17, 2014
Invited talk, Brown Bag Seminar, Soongsil Future Tech Institute, Nov. 7, 2013
Invited seminar, Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control, University of Stuttgart, Germany, July 15, 2013
Invited seminar, Sogang University, Korea, Nov. 30, 2012
Invited seminar, DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Inst. of Science & Tech.), Korea, Oct. 24, 2012
Mini-symposium on Nonlinear Synchronization for ICCAS 2012, Jeju Island, Korea, Oct. 18, 2012
Invited seminar, GIST (Gwangju Inst. of Science & Tech.), Korea, May 10, 2012
Plenary talk for 27th ICROS Conference, COEX, Korea, Apr. 5, 2012
Plenary talk for Information and Control Symposium hosted by IEEK and KIEE, Dankook Univ., Korea, Apr. 22, 2011
Invited seminar, Hanyang University, Korea, Feb. 23, 2011
Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of Waterloo, Canada, Nov. 5, 2010
Invited seminar, Center for Control, Dynamical Systems and Computation, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, Oct. 15, 2010
Control Seminar Series, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Oct. 8, 2010
Invited seminar, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA, Oct. 7, 2010
Seminar series at Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, Mar. 17, 2010
PARC Seminar, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea, Oct. 30, 2009
Invited seminar, The University of Tokyo, Japan, Aug. 08, 2008
Invited seminar, KAIST (Korea Advanced Science and Technology), Korea, May 2008
Semi-plenary speaker, IFAC NOLCOS, South Africa, 2007
Invited seminar, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, Aug. 07, 2006
Invited seminar, Soongsil Univ., Korea, Oct. 26, 2004
Plenary talk for Information and Control Symposium hosted by KIEE and IEEK, Seoul National Univ., Korea, May 22, 2004
Invited seminar, Pusan Univ., Korea, 2003