People. Department of Mechanical Engineering at UT Dallas.

WOORAM PARK

wooram.park@utdallas.edu
Phone: 972-883-4625
Mail Box: 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

  • W. Park, Y. Wang and G. S. Chirikjian, “The Path-Of-Probability Algorithm for Steering and Feedback Control of Flexible Needles,” International Journal of Robotics Research, 29(7): 813-830, 2010.
  • W. Park, D. R. Madden and D. N. Rockmore and G. S. Chirikjian, “Deblurring of Class-Averaged Images in Single-Particle Electron Microscopy,” Inverse Problems, 26, 2010.
  • 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.
  • W. Park, G. Leibon, D. N. Rockmore and G. S. Chirikjian, “Accurate Image Rotation Using Hermite Expansions,” IEEE, Transactions on Image Processing, 18(9): 1988-2003, 2009.
  • W. Park, Y. Liu, Y. Zhou, M. Moses and G. S. Chirikjian, “Kinematic State Estimation and Motion Planning for Stochastic Nonholonomic Systems using the Exponential Map,” Robotica, 26: 419-434, 2008.

Major Honors and Awards

  • Creel Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 2007
  • ArtBot Robot Design Competition, Critics’ Choice Award, Johns Hopkins University, 2004
  • BK21 Graduate Research Fellowship, Seoul National University, 2001-2002
  • Department Fellowship, Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, 1995-1998