Gi-Hun Yang received a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea, in 2000, an M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, in 2002, and a Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from KAIST, in 2008. He was previously a Post-doc at the Center for Cognitive Robotics Research at KIST. He is currently a Principal Research Scientist of the Robotics R&D Division at Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH). His current research interests include haptics, teleoperation, HRI, bio-inspired robots, and industrial robots.