Hyunchul Park Wins an NRF Research Grant
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 work develops world-model-based driving skills for humanoid robots and validates them on real vehicles across a V2X-enabled testbed. The proposal drew strong evaluations for its concrete research plan, the clear link between its research and academic goals, and the capabilities and environment of the research team.
Project at a glance
- Project title – World-Model-Based Driving Skill Learning for Humanoid Robots and Real-Vehicle Validation on a V2X Testbed
- Principal Investigator – Hyunchul Park, Ph.D. Student (TUPA)
- Funding program – Doctoral Student Research Encouragement Program
- Funding agency – National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
- Research funding – 50,000,000 KRW
- Host institution – KAIST
- Project period – September 2026 to August 2028
Congratulations to Hyunchul Park on this outstanding achievement, and we look forward to his research in humanoid robotics, AI-based driving, world models, and V2X!
