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2024.11.8 Our group gave six talks including Prof. Koo's invited talk at the Annual Meeting of Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers held in Jeju ICC, Republic of Korea.

2024.09.26 Prof. Koo received the Outstanding Contribution Award from the Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology for his Associate Editor work for the jounrnal.

2024.08.31 Hyeyoung Kong and Kyubin Chun gave oral presentations in the annual meeting of Korean Society of Biomechanics. Kyubin received best paper award.

2024.07.01 Seungwoo Yoon and Jeongseok Oh presented posters in the annual conference of ESB (European Society of Biomechanics) 2024 held in Edinburgh, UK.

2024.05.31 Invited seminar by Dr. Nathan Netravali on Applying AI+Computational Modeling to Medical Devices

Dr. Nathan A. Netravali, Director R+D, Smith and Nephew, Andover, MA, USA

2024.04.25 Jonghyun Park received Excellent MS Thesis award and Jeongseok and Seungwoo Yoon received Best Paper award in the Spring Conference of KSME Bioengineering, held in Yeosu, Republic of Korea.

2024.04.25 Junyo Boo, Beomsoo Shin and Jonghyun Park presented in the Spring Conference of KSME Bioengineering, held in Yeosu, Republic of Korea.

2024.04.16 Gunwoo presented poster at 33rd Annual Meeting of Neural Control of Movement held in Dubrovnik, Croatia.

2024.03.27 Prof. Seungbum Koo received  Outstanding Contribution Award for his contribution to the Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology (JMST, IF 1.5) as an Associate Editor. 

2024.02.15 Invited seminar by Dr. Valentina Camomilla on Soft tissue artifacts in human movement analysis : anatomy of an enemy

Dr. Valentina Camomilla, Associate Professor of Biomechanics, University of Rome Foro Italico, Rome, Italy

2024.02.04 Junyo Boo and Beomsoo Shin presented posters in the Annual Conference of Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS), held in Long Beach, CA, USA.

2024.02.03 Prof. Koo moderated a session "Modeling, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Collapsing Foot Deformity" in the Annual Conference of Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS), held in Long Beach, CA, USA.

2023.12.16 We took the 2nd place in locomotion track in NeurIPS 2023 MyoChallenge Competition. 

2023.12.01 We had two oral presentations in the KSB and KSSB joint conference.

2023.11.15 We joined AP-Biomech 2023 held in Kuala Lumpur, malaysia. We had one oral presentation and Prof. Koo moderated two keynote sessions. 

2023.11.02 We joined KSME 2023 Conference held in Songdo, South Korea. We had three oral presentation.

2023.10.01 We presented a simulation of soft suit with shape-memory-alloy actuators to assist walking along with a hardware prototype from KIMM in Robot World 2023, Kintex, South Korea.

2023.08.01 We had two oral presentations and two posters in the ISB meeting held in Fukuoka, Japan from July 30th to August 3rd. 

2023.07.28 Prof. Seungbum Koo delivered a keynote lecture at the ISB TGCS (Technical Group on Computer Simulation) Conference held in Kyoto, Japan, July 26-28, 2023. The title of the lecture was "Forward dynamics gait simulation of musculoskeletal human model using reinforcement learning." The ISB TGCS is a biennial conference focused on computer simulation in biomechanics, especially human movement, motor control, and robotics related to biomechanics. The 19th conference featured two keynote lectures, with Professor Seungbum Koo discussing the reinforcement learning-based human motion controllers in musculoskeletal dynamics simulations and their research applications such as muscle activation patterns and assistive device co-simulation.

2023.04.23 We received two awards in the spring meeting of KSME Bioengineering. 

2022.12.20 Prof. Koo is invited as a keynote speaker at ISB TGCS 2023.
https://isbweb.org/~tgcs/iscsb-2023/kyoto.html

2022.11.24 Prof. Mark Latash visited KAIST and gave a talk on "Mechanisms of intentional and unintensional movements. 

2022.11.11 Yooha Son (Master student) received best paper awards in the 2022 Annual conference of Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers held in Jejudo, South Korea.

2022.07.14 Prof. Seungbum Koo gave an invited talk "Seeing the unseen movements of the foot using bi-plane fluoroscopic imaging" in the Foot and Ankle session at the 2022 World Congress of Biomechanics held in Taipei, Taiwan. 

2022.07.14 We presented four talks (Young-jun Koo, Seungwoo Yoon, Jeongseok Oh, Ailian Chi) and one poster (Mingi Jeong) in the 2022 World Congress of Biomechanics held in Taipei, Taiwan.

2022.04.22 Young-Jun Koo, PhD (Postdoctoral Fellow) and Yooha Son (Master student) received best paper awards in the Spring Conference of Bioengineering Division of Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers held in Taean, South Korea.

2022.03.22 Prof. Koo gave an online invited talk on "Training a walking controller for human musculoskeletal simulation using the deep reinforcement learning" in Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan.

2022.02.18 Prof. Koo gave an online invited talk on "Deep reinforcement learning to create a gait controller of a musculoskeletal human model" in Biomechanics, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.

2021.11.12 Invited seminar by Dr. Anna-Maria Liphardt on Space flight research for a better understanding of the role of mechanical loading for cartilage health

Dr. Anna-Maria Liphardt, Rheumatology & Immunology, University Hospital Erlangen & Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

2021.10.16 Prof. Koo and his colleagues received a poster presentation award in the 65th Annual Congress of the Korean Orthopaedic Association for the study on ankle stress X-ray examination to quantify ligament instability after ankle fracture treatment.

2021.10.08 Invited seminar by Prof. Ajit Chaudhari on Getting to the "Core" of Running Mechanics

Prof. Ajit Chaudhari, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

2021.09.10 Invited seminar by Prof. Markus Wimmer on Bicruciate Total Knee Arthroplasty – Hop or Flop?

Prof. Markus A. Wimmer, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, USA, Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and the Grainger Director of the  Rush Arthritis and Orthopedics Institute, Associate Chairman for Research in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Rush University Medical Center, Chicago (IL)

2021.09.07 Prof. Koo gave a keynote speech in the 2021 JSME-KSME Joint Symposium on his study on "Kinematics and kinetics of the foot. "

JSME: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, KSME: The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers

2021.07.18 Dr. Young-Jun Koo received the 2021 ISB and APAB abstract award in the ISB 2021 for his study on "Predictive simulation of walking with weak ankle plantar-flexor using an AI gait controller. "

ISB: International Society of Biomechanics, APAB: Asian-Pacific Association for Biomechanics

2021.06.18 Invited seminar by Prof. Thor Besier on Personalisation of biomechanical models to understand joint degeneration

Thor Besier, PhD, Professor, Auckland Bioengineering Institute and Dept Engineering Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand

2021.06.15 Prof. Koo received an outstanding contribution award from the Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology for his contribution to the journal as an associate editor. (https://www.springer.com/journal/12206/updates/17982378)


2021.06.15 Prof. Koo became the council member of Asian-Pacific Association for Biomechanics (APAB), which encourages collaborations in this region for biomechanics research. (https://www.jsme.or.jp/bio/apbiomech/)

2021.06.7 Prof. Koo gave an invited seminar at the department of rehabilitation of Seoul Asan Medical Center (One of top 3 hospital in South Korea) on Human joint movement and its measurement 

2021.06.4 Prof. Koo gave an invited talk at the Conference of Korean Innovative Medical Technology Society (http://www.kimtec.or.kr/) on  Biiplanar fluoroscopic imaging for skeletal kinematics of the foot

2021.05.21 Invited seminar by Prof. Marcus Pandy on Computational Modeling of Muscle and Joint Function in Human Locomotion

Marcus Pandy, PhD, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia

2021.04.23 Invited seminar by Prof. John Rasmussen on A Top-down Approach to Exoskeleton Design using Musculoskeletal Simulation

John Rasmussen, PhD, Professor, Department of Materials and Production, Aalborg University, Denmark

2021.04.16 Junyo Boo (Master student) received an Excellent Paper Award in the Spring Conference of Bioengineering Division of Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers for his study on, "Calculation of 3D bone posture using correlations between foot bones" 

2021.04.16 Suil Jeon (Master student) received an Excellent Master Thesis Award in the Spring Conference of Bioengineering Division of Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers for his study on, "Anomalous gait feature detection using three-dimensional walking data with dimension reduction" 

2021.04.16 Suil Jeon (Master student) received an Excellent Paper Award in the Spring Conference of Bioengineering Division of Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (Gangneung, South Korea) for his study on, "Anomalous gait motion classification using a neural-network" 

2021.04.02 Invited seminar by Prof. Jae Kun Shim on Role of Sensory Feedback in Human Movements

Jae Kun Shim, PhD, Professor in Kinesiology, Robotics, Neuroscience, & Bioengineering, Director, Neuromechanics Research Core, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

2021.01.25 Invited seminar by Prof. Jooeun Ahn on Augmentation of Human Motor Performance through the Bilateral Approach in Sports Engineering

Jooeun Ahn, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology, Seoul National University

2020.08.26 Suil Jeon (Master student) received an Excellent Paper Award in the Spring Conference of Bioengineering Division of Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers for his study on, "Gait motion prediction in different environments using the autoencoder-based gait feature extraction method" 

2020.06.2-4 Online Lecture on Human Musculoskeletal Simulation to support Biomechanics Research in Dominican Republic

KAIST supports R&D projects in Dominican Republic in collaboration with the Ministry of Higher Education and Science in Dominican Republic by the support from KOICA. One of the promising projects of developing an exoskeleton system to prevent bedsore disease in patients has been in need of educational support for biomechanical background of it. Prof. Seungbum Koo and his graduate students prepared and gave online lectures on theories and practices on musculoskeletal simulation using OpenSim on 2-4th June. The three-day lecture was given between 6-9 pm in Dominican Republic and 10-15 researchers joint the lecture real-time. The recorded videos and lecture materials were also handed for the researchers who could not join the lecture real-time.

2020.6.1 New publication "Increase of stiffness in plantar fat tissue in diabetic patients" in Journal of Biomechanics 

2020.6.1 New publication "Anatomical ACL reconstruction can restore the natural knee kinematics than isometric ACL reconstruction during the stance phase of walking" in International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing 

2020.2.8-11, Prof. Koo and his master students (Jeongsuk Oh and Suil Jeon) attended the Annual Conference of Orthopaedic Research Society held in Phoenix, Arizona. Prof. Koo gave an oral presentation on foot biomechanics. 

2019.11.5 Our laboratory organized and provided a seminar to KCSI police agents on the forensic gait analysis using the software developed in the lab through the Projects for Research and Development of Police Science and Technology Grant.  

2019.7.31-8.4 Prof. Koo and Jungwon Kim (master student) attended the biennial meeting of International Society of Biomechanics held in Calgary, Canada.

2019.7.18 Prof. Naomichi Ogihara (University of Tokyo) and Prof. Taeyong Lee (Ewha Womans University) visited our lab and gave a seminar on foot biomechanics. 

2018.10.18 Prof. Koo gave an invited lecture in Orthopaedic Research Symposium sesson in 62nd Annual Congress of the Korean Orthopaedic Association held at Grand Hilton Hotel, Seoul, South Korea.

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