LAB LIFE IMPACTs Fall Semester Kick-off September 2026 • KAIST IMPACTs marked the start of the fall semester with a kick-off meeting, where Prof. Inhi Kim shared updates on our growing group of labs, followed by a group dinner. Kick-off Meeting Group Dinner Second Round
Research Grant Hyunchul Park Wins an NRF Research Grant September 2026•National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) IMPACTs is delighted to share that Hyunchul Park, a Ph.D. student in TUPA, has won an NRF research grant through the Doctoral Student Research Encouragement Program. His project brings together humanoid robots, world models, and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technologies. The […]
Student Scholarship Shi Ye Named a 2026 Kim Young-han Global Leader Scholar July 2026•KAIST IMPACTs is proud to share that Shi Ye of the Human-FACTS Lab has been named a 2026 Kim Young-han Global Leader Scholar at KAIST. It is a wonderful recognition for one of the doctoral researchers in our community. The Kim Young-han […]
Research Grant Prof. Heye Huang Awarded a New NRF Research Grant August 2026•National Research Foundation of Korea Prof. Heye Huang of ACES Lab has been awarded a new NRF grant for her research on embodied intelligence in long-tail environments. It is welcome news for one of the newest labs in the IMPACTs family. Her project […]
Conference Prof. Chen Keynote at KSR 2026 Summer Conference August 2026 • Bangkok, Thailand Prof. Nicole Chen of HFACTS delivered a keynote at the KSR 2026 Summer Conference in Bangkok, on designing public transport for vulnerable travelers.
Conference MINDS Presentations at KSR 2026 August 2026 • Bangkok, Thailand MINDS members presented their railway research at the KSR 2026 Summer Conference in Bangkok, from crash hotspots to station wayfinding and rail demand.
National R&D Project TUPA Joins National R&D Project on End-to-End Autonomous Driving August 2026 • Ministry of SMEs and Startups We are pleased to announce that TUPA has joined a new national R&D project on end-to-end autonomous driving, selected for funding by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups. The project runs from 2026 to 2030 […]
Conference Awards ACES Lab Students Receive Two Awards at IEEE CASE 2026 August 2026 • IEEE CASE 2026, Shenyang, China We are delighted to share that two students from the ACES Lab earned top honors at the IEEE CASE 2026 Safety-Critical Robotics Workshop in Shenyang, China. Zuyi Guo (M.S., Fall 2026) and Xianjie Dai (Ph.D., […]
Lab Family News Hyunchul Park (TUPA) Is Getting Married August 8, 2026•Suwon, Gyeonggi Happy news from the TUPA Lab. Hyunchul Park, a Ph.D. student at the Cho Chun Shik Graduate School of Mobility, is marrying Ha-eun Kim on Saturday, August 8, 2026. The ceremony begins at 12:30 PM in the Convention Hall of Meribilia The […]
Artificial Intelligence for Travel Demand Modeling Date : Wednesday, August 5, 2026 Time : 3:00PM – 4:00PM (KST, Seoul Time) Venue : Zoom (Online Research Seminar) Speaker : Prof. Shenhao Wang, University of Florida Artificial Intelligence for Travel Demand Modeling Abstract Travel demand modeling has long relied on discrete choice models (DCMs) grounded in random […]
