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Junho Park, PhD

Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Biomedical Engineering
Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary

Junho Park directs the HERO lab. His group studies shared autonomy and human–prosthetic interaction, combining neuroergonomics, human performance modeling and biosignal processing, and extends that work to human–AI teams in emergency response and clinical care.

He was previously a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Santa Clara University and spent nine years at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses leading human factors and requirements analyses of defense systems. He holds a PhD in Industrial & Systems Engineering from Texas A&M University.

junho.park[at]ucalgary.ca
CCIT 212, University of Calgary

Appointments

Biomedical Engineering, University of CalgaryAssistant Professor, 2024 to present. Joint, Community Health Sciences; adjunct, Psychology
General Engineering, Santa Clara UniversityAssistant Professor, 2023 to 2024
Korea Institute for Defense AnalysesResearcher and Associate Research Fellow, 2010 to 2019

Education

PhD, Industrial & Systems EngineeringTexas A&M University. Advisor: Maryam Zahabi
MSc, Industrial EngineeringSeoul National University. Advisor: Myun W. Lee
BSc, Computer & Industrial EngineeringYonsei University

Service

HFES Human Performance Modeling and Augmented Cognition TGsVice Chair 2026, Chair 2027
NSF review panelsCAREER 2026; CISE Human-Centered Computing 2023 to 2025
AKCSE Southern Alberta ChapterPresident, 2026 to 2028

HERO lab members in the lab — HERO lab members

Graduate students

Hamid Salmani Nodooshan
PhD, Biomedical Engineering
Agency-constrained shared autonomy and responsibility-aware function allocation
Jihyun Kim
MSc, Transdisciplinary Program
Workload-adaptive AI assistance for emergency dispatch and triage in XR
Naomi Musa
MSc, Biomedical Engineering
Human factors design of pediatric ankle-foot orthoses
Yingxue (Hyde) Zhang
MSc, Biomedical Engineering
Brain–hand coordination in children with cerebral palsy
Andrea Richardson
MSc, co-supervised
Usability of drug error reduction systems in smart infusion pumps
Negar Raika
MEng
Ergonomics
Arai Jenkins
MEng
Neuro-rehabilitation

Undergraduate researchers

Daniel Choi
Undergraduate researcher
Trustworthy EEG and EMG decoding
Andrew Choi
Undergraduate researcher
Prosthetic embodiment and shared autonomy
Zara Shiraz
Undergraduate researcher
VR and neuroergonomics

Visiting scholars

Dr. Haeyoung Kim
National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Japan
Fall 2026 to present
Analysis of fall injuries
Parmida Omrani
University of British Columbia
Summer 2026
Multimodal signal synchronization
Dr. Yanghyon Baek
Dong-A University Hospital
Fall 2025 to Spring 2026
Outcomes after gastrectomy

Student honors

Jihyun KimAlberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (2026); HFES Annual Meeting Honorable Mention (2026); Graduate College Graduate Award, Transdisciplinary Scholarship and Travel Grant (2026); FGS Scholarship (2025)
Andrew ChoiHFES Human Performance Modeling TG Best Student Paper Award (2026); NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (2026); Fessenden-Trott Scholarship (2026)
Daniel ChoiHFES Human Performance Modeling TG Best Student Paper Award (2026); Min Byung Kee Award (2025)
Hamid Salmani NodooshanInternational graduate tuition award (2026)
Zara ShirazDr. Jan Joseph Havlena Award (2026)
Zehaan Walji, Reyansh Badhwar, Parshva DaveHFES Sue Bogner Best Student Paper Award, 3rd place (2025); HFES Travel Award for Zehaan (2025)
Divakar GabaPURE Award (2025)
AliW21C Summer Undergraduate Studentship (2025)

Alumni

Reyansh Badhwar
BSc, 2024 to 2026. Quantum trust model; real-time cognitive workload
Zehaan Walji
BSc, 2024 to 2026. Multi-agent systems; peripheral neuropathy
PD
Parshva Dave
BSc, 2024 to 2025. Multi-agent AI, trust and workload
Samra Pierre
MEng, 2024 to 2026. Sense of agency
Emily Ostapiuk
2025 to 2026. Thumb movement classification
ZH
Zaid Hoda
BSc, 2025 to 2026. Naturalistic finger movement model
Fabiha Islam
MEng, 2024 to 2025. Warning systems
DG
Divakar Gaba
2025. Dehydration detection model
CR
Christopher Roberts
MEng, 2025. Ankle-foot orthoses

Join the lab

We recruit PhD, MSc and MEng students through Biomedical Engineering, and undergraduate researchers from across the university. Lab members come from engineering, computer science, kinesiology, neuroscience and design.

Email Dr. Park at junho.park[at]ucalgary.ca with your CV, transcripts and a short note on which research area interests you.