Byung-Cheol Min
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Byung-Cheol ("B.C.") Min is 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 he joined in Fall 2025. Dr. Min directs the SMART Lab. Prior to joining IU, he was a faculty member at Purdue University from 2015 to 2025, serving as an Assistant Professor (2015-2020) and Associate Professor (2020-2025). From 2014 to 2015, before his faculty appointment at Purdue, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, where he worked on assistive robots for blind travelers in the context of human-robot interaction, funded by NSF/NRI. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer and Information Technology with a specialization in Robotics from Purdue University in May 2014, focusing on multi-robot systems and networked robotics. He received his M.S. degree in Electronics and Radio Engineering with a specialization in Automatic Control from Kyung Hee University in South Korea in 2010, and his B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from the same university in 2008. From 2007 to 2008, he completed an internship at the Robotics and Games Lab at Griffith University in Australia, and in 2005, another internship at Kanbay in India. From 2001 to 2003, he served as a signal corpsman in the Republic of Korea Army, Aviation Operations Command.
Dr. Min is a roboticist. He conducts 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. His 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, he has focused on designing and developing 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. He has also explored how learning methods can enable robots to flexibly interact with any humans, in any situation, anywhere.
Dr. Min received the NSF CAREER Award in 2019, and has received numerous awards from Purdue University, including the Purdue Polytechnic Institute Outstanding Faculty in Discovery Award in 2019, the Purdue's Department of Computer and Information Technology Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award in 2019, the Purdue's Department of Computer and Information Technology Outstanding Faculty in Discovery Award in 2019 and 2021, Purdue Focus Award in 2019, and the Purdue Polytechnic Institute Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration Award in 2021. He 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. He also led the Purdue-Hongik Team that placed as a finalist in the NASA Space Robotics Challenge Phase 2. His research has been supported by various external funding agencies including the NSF, NIFA, NIJ, and UNSA. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. He has 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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The School of Applied and Creative Computing at Purdue University
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Min's personal website