Gun Rae Cho received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea, in 2001, 2003, and 2010, respectively. He was an Senior Engineer with Samsung Heavy Industries, from 2010 to 2016. He is currently a Chief Researcher with Korea Institute of Robotics and Technology Convergence (KIRO), Pohang, South Korea. His current research interests include marine robotics, robust control, manipulation, and reinforcement learning.