Prof. Young Hoon Joo

Prof. Dr. Young Hoon Joo received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Yonsei University (Seoul, Republic of Korea) in 1982, 1984, and 1995, respectively. He was a Project Manager with Samsung Electronics Company (Seoul, Republic of Korea) from 1986 to 1995. He was a Visiting Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, TX, USA, from 1998 to 1999. He is currently a Professor at the School of IT Information and Control Engineering, Kunsan National University, Republic of Korea (1995 to present). His research interests include control engineering, intelligent control, wind turbine control, and robot vision. In his area of expertise, he has published more than 350 papers in top SCIE journals such as IEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Trans. on Cybernetics, IEEE Trans. on System, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, Information Sciences, etc. He served as the President of the Korea Institute of Intelligent Systems (KIIS) in 2009, the Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems (IJCAS, IF: 3.2) from 2014 to 2017, the Vice-President of the Institute of Control, Robot and Control (ICROS) from 2016 to 2017, and the President for the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers (KIEE) in 2019. He is serving as the Director of the Research Center of Wind Energy Systems at Kunsan National University, funded by the Korean Government (2016 to present).