Byung-Cheol Min
About
Dr. Byung-Cheol (“B.C.”) Min is a Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington. He joined the university in Fall 2025 and directs the SMART Lab (www.smart-laboratory.org). Prior to joining IU, Dr. Min was a faculty member at Purdue University from 2015 to 2025, serving as an Assistant Professor (2015-2020), Associate Professor (2020-2025), and the Director of the Purdue Applied AI Research Center (2024-2025). He received his B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering and M.S. in Electronics and Radio Engineering with a specialization in Automatic Control from Kyung Hee University in 2008 and 2010, respectively. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Computer and Information Technology with a specialization in Robotics from Purdue University in 2014, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University from 2014 to 2015. Dr. Min is a roboticist. He conducts both fundamental and applied (use-inspired) research on robotics, exploring problems of planning and control, algorithms, and learning in real-world scientific and engineering challenges. His current research interests center on human-robot interaction, robot learning, and multi-robot systems. This includes areas such as human-robot teams, human multi-robot systems, affective computing, reinforcement learning, learning from demonstration, generative AI, multi-agent systems, swarm robotics, and distributed control. Recently, his focus has been on designing and developing algorithms and systems to enable robots to collaborate in a distributed way and to work with humans as a team, as well as exploring how learning methods can enable robots to flexibly interact with humans in diverse situations and environments.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
Development of a micro quad-rotor UAV for monitoring an Indoor environment
Year: 2009
Citations: 53
Venue: Advances in Robotics
Latest Recorded Paper
Game-Based and Gamified Robotics Education: A Comparative Systematic Review and Design Guidelines
Year: 2026
Citations: 0
Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.22199
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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