My Multiverse

As a Researcher

• We can make the world a better place

• Science and technology which do not make people happy are not meaningful and good, at least for people

• I always hope to be a philosopher standing at the boundary of knowledge

• The most fundamental attitude required of professional researchers is to pursue rigor/rigorousness

Research Goal

• My long-term research goal is to understand and develop the mechanisms of abstraction, imagination, and knowledge expansion of human beings.

  • I aim at creating intelligent, autonomous, and ethical agents that can interact with other agents or a wide range of complex and dynamic environments through their own logical thinking processes (cognition, reasoning, understanding, learning, etc.)

• Keywords: intelligence, (self) learning, autonomy, adaptation, abstraction, imagination, machine ethics

Research Interests

• Statistical Inference and Statistical/Computational Learning Theory

Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Manifold Learning

• Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision

Human Motion Analysis, Image Segmentation, Feature Engineering, Image Processing

• Artificial Intelligence

Machine/Robot Intelligence

• Decision Theory

Sequential Decision Making

• Machine Science and Mechanism Design

Kinematics, Kinematic Geometry

• Robotics and Control Theory

Navigation, SLAM, Task/Motion Planning, Robot Control, Vision-based Control, HRI

• Failure Analysis

Vibration Analysis, Defect Analysis, Life Estimation

Libraries

• My Open-Source Repositories

  • Sang-Wook's Library (SWL)

    • A general-purpose library/framework for a variety of scientific and engineering problems

  • Sang-Wook's Analysis Framework (SWAF)

    • An open-source project for data analysis

  • Sang-Wook's Development and Testing (SWDT)

    • A rich repository of knowledge for development and testing of S/W and H/W

    • A repository of resources for research and development of S/W and H/W including ideation, conceptualization, and mathematical formulation, etc.

• My libraries and algorithms have been developed on the Linux/Unix, Windows, and Mac OS systems and can be built by major compilers such as GCC, Visual C++, and clang

• Open-source libraries have actively and positively been used during research and development process: Boost, Eigen, GSL, OpenCV, OpenGM, etc.

Skills

• Mathematics

  • Statistics, Statistical Inference, Probability Theory

  • Linear Geometry, Differential Geometry, Non-Euclidean Geometry

  • Analysis, Functional Analysis, Vector and Tensor Calculus

  • Graph Theory, Combinatorics

  • Linear Algebra, Abstract Algebra, Topology, Algebraic Topology

• S/W Engineering

  • S/W Development Process

    • Agile Software Development

      • Scrum

    • Test-Driven Development (TDD)

  • S/W Architecture

    • Architectural Patterns

  • Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD)

    • Design Patterns

  • Programming Paradigm

    • Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)

    • Functional Programming

  • S/W Acceleration and Optimization

• Computing

  • Programming Language: Python, C/C++, Java, C#, Scala

  • Operating System: Linux/Unix, Windows, Mac OS

  • Computer-Aided S/W Engineering (CASE) Tool: UML, Source Configuration Management Systems, Issue Tracking Systems, Continuous Integration Systems

  • High-Performance Computing Tool: Apache Spark

  • Scientific Computation Tool: Matlab, Octave

  • Computer Algebra System (CAS): Mathematica, Maxima

  • Statistical Computing Tool: R

  • Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Tool: SolidWorks, AutoCAD, OrCAD

• Embedded Systems

  • Microcontroller: ARM, AVR, MCS-51/MCS-96, m68k