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Seung-Bin You is a leading robotics researcher whose work centers on dexterous manipulation, teleoperation, and humanoid control. He is best known for his pivotal role in the ANA Avatar XPRIZE, where his team developed the SNU-Avatar Robot Hand—a prismatic four-bar linkage design enabling versatile daily tasks—and the SNU-Avatar Haptic Glove, which uses novel trigonometric series elastic actuators for precise force feedback. These contributions, documented in papers with 11 and 8 citations respectively, advanced tele-existence by making robotic avatars more intuitive and interactive. You also made significant strides in humanoid safety and compliance, introducing the Operational Space Formulation that accounts for joint stiffness and bandwidth limits (5 citations), and developing variable stiffness control via LSTM-based external torque estimation (4 citations). His mechanical innovations include a plate harmonic reducer with a profiled groove wave generator, enhancing torque density for legged robots. With a portfolio spanning hardware design, control theory, and machine learning, You’s work has directly shaped the next generation of interactive, human-like robots, earning recognition for its blend of theoretical rigor and practical impact in teleoperation and collaborative robotics.