Assistant Professor
School of Energy Engineering, KENTECH
Institute for Energy AI, KENTECH
I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Energy Engineering and the Institute for Energy AI at KENTECH. Before joining KENTECH, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Bot Intelligence Group, Robotics Institute, CMU with Prof. Jean Oh. I obtained my Ph.D. and M.S. at KAIST, advised by Professor In So Kweon. I am a recipient of the Best Student Paper Award from WACV 2023, the 29th Samsung Humantech Paper Award, the 1st Place Award at the 2024 CVPR WAD workshop, and the Best Poster Award at the 2025 ICRA TIRO workshop. Additionally, I co-organized the “Thermal Infrared in Robotics” workshop at ICRA 2025 and the “Multi-spectral Imaging for Robotics and Automation” workshop at ICCV 2025.
Research Experiences
Assistant Professor (Aug. 2025 - Present)
School of Energy Engineering, Korea Institute of Energy Technology (KENTECH)
Postdoctoral Scholar (Aug. 2023 - Aug. 2025)
Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (Supervisor: Jean Oh)
- Topic: Robot Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Driving, Vision-Language Navigation
Research Assistant (Sep. 2017 - Aug. 2023)
Electrical Engineering, KAIST (Supervisor: In So Kweon)
- Topic: Self-supervised 3D geometry, Sensor Fusion, Robot Vision, Robotics
Research intern (Jan. 2015 - Aug. 2017)
Electrical Engineering, SNUST (Supervisor: Byoung Wook Choi)
- Topic: Embedded Linux, Real-time Operating System, Real-time Ethernet, Mobile Robot
Education
Ph.D. (Sep. 2019 - Aug. 2023)
Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Advisor: In So Kweon)
Dissertation: Self-supervised 3D Geometric Perception in Adverse Real-world Environments
M.S. (Sep. 2017 - Aug. 2019)
Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Advisor: In So Kweon)
Thesis: Noise-Aware Camera Exposure Control for Robust Robot Vision
B.S. (Mar. 2011 - Feb. 2017)
Electrical and Information Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology
Project: Real-Time Ethernet Protocol based Omni-directional Mobile Robot
Honors & Awards
Outstanding Reviewer Award, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), May 2025
- Out of ~7,000 reviewers, one of the 10 reviewer awards.
Best Poster Award, "Thermal Infrared in Robotics" Workshop @ ICRA 2025, May 2025
1st Place Award, Autonomous Driving Workshop “Argoverse Scene Flow Challenge”@ CVPR 2024, June 2024
Honorable Mention, 29th HumanTech Paper Award, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Feb. 2023
Best Student Paper Award, IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Jan. 2023
- Out of 1577 submitted papers, one of the 3 best paper awards.
Academic Activities
Program Committee
Organizer, ICRA 2025 Workshop on “Thermal in Robotics”, May 2025
Session Chair, ICRA 2025 Session on “Representation Learning 2”, May 2025
Organizer, ICCV 2025 Workshop on “Multispectral Imaging for Robotics and Automation", Oct. 2025
Journal Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (T-CYB) (2022)
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (T-IV) (2023-2024)
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS) (2025)
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) (2022-2025)
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems T-NNLS) (2024-2025)
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT) (2025)
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (T-OMM) (2024)
Neural Processing Letters (2023)
Pattern Recognition (PR) (2023)
Conference Reviewer
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (2022-Now)
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) (2021,2023,2025)
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) (2024)
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) (2023)
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (2024-Now)
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) (2024-Now)
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) (2021-Now)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) (2022-Now)
International Conference on Learning Representations(ICLR) (2022-Now)
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (2021-Now)
ACCV 2024 Workshop on 'Multispectral Imaging for Robotics and Automation', Nov. 2024
-Title: "Visual Perception from Thermal Image: Dataset, Benchmark, and Challenges"
KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Sep. 2024
-Title: "How to do AI research: Goal and mindset"
Hanyang University, May 2024
- Title: "Spatial Perception from Thermal Image in Adverse Weather and Lighting Conditions"
SNU (Seoul National University), Feb. 2024
- Title: "Robust Semantic and Spatial Perception in Adverse Weather and Lighting Conditions"
GIST (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology), Sep. 2023
UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), July 2023
Pusan National University, July 2023