Contact

✉️ joowon(at)kth.se

📍 Stockholm, Sweden

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Research Interests

🔸 Control theory

🔹 Encrypted control

🔸 Data-driven control

🔹 Homomorphic encryption

Languages

🇰🇷 Korean

🇬🇧 English

Education and Career

KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Postdoctoral Researcher)

March 2026 - present

Department of Decision and Control Systems (Supervisors: Prof. Henrik Sandberg and Prof. Karl Henrik Johansson)

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)

Seoul National University (Combined M.S. and Ph.D.)

March 2019 - February 2026

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Control and Dynamics Systems Lab. (Supervisor: Prof. Hyungbo Shim)

Automation and Systems Research Institute

Thesis: Input-Output Data-Driven Representation for Linear Systems: Stability and Applications

Seoul National University (B.S.)

March 2014 - February 2019

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Experience

Visiting Scholar

• KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (Prof. Henrik Sandberg)

  May 2025 - June 2025

• ETH Zürich, Switzerland (Prof. Florian Dörfler)

  May 2025

Invited Seminar

• Imperial College London, United Kingdom

  July 1, 2026

• KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

  June 2, 2025

Invited Speaker

• IEEE CSS Rising Star Symposium on Cyber-Physical Systems Security, Resilience, and Privacy

  February 3, 2026

• 2023 Group of Global Excellence (GoGE) Workshop, Seoul National University, Korea

  October 16, 2023

Publications

(*: corresponding author)

Projects

Grants and Scholarships

• Next generation of academics in basic academic fields (학문후속세대 기초학문분야 장학금 B형), Seoul National University

  March 2024 - February 2026

• Brain Korea 21 Four (참여 또는 지원대학원생), National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)

  September 2020 - March 2025

• Next generation of academics in basic academic fields (학문후속세대 기초학문분야 장학금 C형), Seoul National University

  March 2019 - June 2020

• National Excellence Scholarship (Science and Engineering) (국가우수장학금 (이공계)), Korea Student Aid Foundation

  March 2014 - February 2018

Projects

• ProRES: Proactive Resilience for Increased Energy System Flexibility and Stability (CETPartnership), European Commission and Swedish Energy Agency
• Moving-Target Defense against Controller Attacks in Cyber-Physical Systems, Swedish Research Council
• Encrypted control: Research for security enhancement of control system via computation-enabled cryptosystems (Outstanding Young Scientist Grants), National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
• 연결된 동적 시스템에 관한 제어 이론 심화 연구, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
• Research on learning methods for improving robustness of data-driven controller against model uncertainty, Hyundai Motors
• Research of distributed optimization for large-scale V2G operation, Hyundai Motors
• Research on control theory for connected cyber-physical & human system, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
• 실시간 자율 복원 사이버물리 시스템 기초 연구 (Resilient cyber-physical systems), DGIST

Patents

• Method for designing integer-coefficient controller and method for converting to integer-coefficient controller for encrypted control
• Homomorphic encryption device and method for control systems that discloses a portion of non-private outcome

Teaching Assistant

• Advanced Control Techniques (2024 Spring, 2025 Fall)
• Topics in Control and Automation (2025 Spring)
• Nonlinear System Theory (2024 Fall)
• Introduction to Random Variables and Random Processes (2019 Spring, 2020 Spring)
• Advanced Topics in Nonlinear Control (2019 Fall)

Experience

• Staff at 2020 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)