Ukcheol Shin (신욱철)

• 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

• 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

• 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.

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)

Invited Talks & Guest Lectures

• 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