Byung-Cheol Min

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Welcome to my website. My name is Byung-Cheol Min, and I go by "B.C.". I am a Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington, which I joined in Fall 2025. I lead my research group, the SMART Lab (www.smart-laboratory.org). Prior to joining IU, I was a faculty member at Purdue University from 2015 to 2025, serving as an Assistant Professor (2015-2020) and Associate Professor (2020-2025). I received my B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering and M.S. in Electronics and Radio Engineering with a specialization in Automatic Control from Kyung Hee University in 2008 and 2010, respectively. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer and Information Technology from Purdue University in 2014. Following my Ph.D., I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University from 2014 to 2015.

I am a roboticist. I conduct both fundamental and applied (use-inspired) research on robotics, exploring problems of planning and control, algorithms, and learning in real-world scientific and engineering challenges. My current research interests center on human-robot interaction, robot learning, and multi-robot systems. This includes areas such as human-robot teams, human multi-robot systems, affective computing, reinforcement learning, learning from demonstration, generative AI, multi-agent systems, swarm robotics, and distributed control. Recently, I have focused on designing algorithms and systems to enable multiple robots to collaborate with each other in a distributed way and to work with humans as a multi-human-multi-robot team. I have also explored how learning methods can enable robots to flexibly interact with any humans, in any situation, anywhere.

I am a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 2019, and have received numerous awards from Purdur university, including the Purdue PPI Outstanding Faculty Award in Discovery in 2019, the Purdue CIT Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award in 2019, the Purdue CIT Outstanding Faculty Award in Discovery in 2019 and 2021, the Purdue Focus Award in 2020, the Purdue PPI Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration Award in 2021, and the Purdue Corps of Engagement Award in 2022. I was named a Purdue University Faculty Scholar in 2021, which is one of the highest research honors at Purdue where the University Faculty Scholars Program recognizes outstanding faculty who are on an accelerated path for academic distinction. I also led the Purdue-Hongik Team that placed as a finalist in the NASA Space Robotics Challenge Phase 2. My research has been supported by various external funding agencies including the NSF, NIFA, NIJ, and UNSA. I have published over 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. I have served as an associate editor of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) and a co-organizer of the NSF workshop to Explore US/Korean Collaboration in Human-Friendly Co-Robotic Technologies.


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