Resume
Academic Achievements
- Publications:
- - VL-TGS: Trajectory Generation and Selection using Vision Language Models in Mapless Outdoor Environments
- - VLM-Social-Nav: Socially Aware Robot Navigation through Scoring Using Vision-Language Models
- - SSK: Robotic Pen-art System for Large, Non-planar Canvas
- - Solving Footstep Planning as a Feasibility Problem using L1-norm Minimization
- Awards:
- - Best Poster Award at the Human-aware Embodied AI (HEAI) Workshop at IROS 2025
- - Best Undergrad Paper Award at KCGS 2021
- - Best Paper Award at KRoC 2018
- Other academic achievements:
- - Report on The 4th BARN Challenge at ICRA 2025 accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
- - SocialLLaVA and AutoSpatial accepted to IEEE IROS 2025
- - MOSU accepted to ISER 2025
- - GND accepted to IEEE ICRA 2025
- - VLM-Social-Nav published in IEEE RA-L and will be presented at IEEE ICRA 2025
- - DTG and AGL-NET accepted to IEEE IROS 2024
- - TSP-Bot accepted to UR 2024
- - SSK published in IEEE T-RO
- - Stroke-based Rendering and Planning accepted to IEEE IROS 2023
- - Extended version of SL1M published in IEEE RA-L
- - LEAS accepted to IEEE ICRA 2021
- - SL1M accepted to IEEE ICRA 2020
- - Paper accepted to IEEE ICRA 2019
- - Paper accepted to IEEE ICRA 2018
Research Experience
- Currently a postdoctoral associate in the Robotixx group at George Mason University, USA, working with Dr. Xuesu Xiao; Former postdoc at the University of Maryland, working with Dr. Dinesh Manocha.
Education
- Received a Ph.D. degree from Ewha Womnas University, Korea in 2023, advised by Dr. Young J. Kim in the Computer Graphics Lab.
Background
- Research interests include Human-Robot Interaction problems and many other fun automated systems that work in the real world.
Miscellany
- Personal interests: Participated in a robotic drawing art exhibition, CO-DRAW, with Dr. Joo-Haeng Lee.