Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Robot Intelligence Lab (RILAB)
RILAB has been focussing on (but not limited to) the following topics.
Motion retargeting for humanoids and quadruped robots
Physically plausible motion generation of both legged robots and neuromuscular models
Human-robot interaction focussing on a companion robot
Embodied AI utilizing multimodal large language models
Shared autonomy for robotic tasks
(notice) We are actively seeking undergraduate interns!
My passion lies in the future of robots that coexist with human beings.
I am an assistant professor at the Department of Artificial Intelligence at Korea University. Before joining Korea University, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Disney Research, Los Angeles, from 2018-2020 and a research scientist at Kakao Brain, Korea, in 2018. My research interests include, but are not limited to, the following areas: human-robot interaction (HRI), text-conditioned motion generation, and foundation models for Robotics.
I previously received my Ph.D. degree in Electrical Computer Engineering at Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea, advised by Songhwai Oh. Before that, I received my Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at Seoul National University. During my undergraduate years, I worked at Hanool Robotics in Bucheon, Korea, as a software engineer for three years.
Updates (selected)
(2024-07) Our paper on Quality-Diversity Reinforcement Learning (SMORE) has been accepted to Neural Networks.
(2024-07) Our paper on Persona-based Interactive Robotic Agent (MASK) has been accepted to RA-L / ICRA 2025.
(2024-06) Our paper on Text-based Human Search using Spot (SOCRATES) has been accepted to RO-MAN 2024.
(2024-06) Our paper on Visual Preference Inference (VPI) has been accepted to IROS 2024.
(2024-01) Two papers on Prosthetic Hand Motion Generation and Tapping Sound Generation have been accepted to EMBC 2024.
(2024-01) Our paper on Semi-autonomous Teleoperation with LLMs and Simulators (SPOTS) has been accepted to ICRA 2024.
(2024-01) Our paper on Soft Robot Model Identification and Control (KINN) has been accepted to RA-L / IROS 2024.
(2024-01) Our paper on Robust Uncertainty Estimation has been accepted to Neurocomputing.
(2023-11) Our paper on LLM-based interactive robot agent (CLARA) has been accepted to RA-L / ICRA 2024.
(2023-11) Our paper on Diffusion Models in Hilbert Spaces (Hilbert Diffusion) has been accepted to NeurIPS 2023 (Spotlight).
(2023-2) Our paper on Uncertainty Estimation and Robust Learning has been accepted to Pattern Recognition.
(2023-1) Our paper on Active Visual Search (ZAVIS) has been accepted to ICRA 2023.
(2023-1) Our paper on Diffusion-based Human Motion Synthesis (FLAME) has been accepted to AAAI 2023.
(2022-9) Our paper on Conditional Motion In-Betweening (CMIB) has been accepted to Pattern Recognition.
(2022-6) Our paper on the uncertainty-aware autonomous driving dataset has been accepted to IROS 2022.
(2022-3) Our paper on Semi-autonomous Teleoperation has been accepted to ICRA 2022.
(2021-3) Our paper on Self-Supervised Motion Retargeting has been accepted to ICRA 2021.
(2020-11) Our work on HRI is on CNN, IEEE Spectrum, Designboom, and TheVerge.
(2020-9) I am actively looking for motivated Ph.D. students to join Robot Intelligence Lab (RIL).
(2020-7) I will be joining Korea University (Department of Artificial Intelligence) as an assistant professor from September.
(2020-7) Our paper on human-robot interaction has been accepted to IROS 2020.
(2020-5) Our paper on non-parametric motion retargeting has been accepted to RSS 2020.
(2020-5) Our paper on entropy-regularized reinforcement learning has been accepted to RSS 2020.
(2020-4) Our paper on semi-supervised robust learning has been accepted to CVPR 2020 as an oral presentation.
(2020-3) Our paper on latent space modeling for motion re-targeting has been accepted to RA-L / ICRA 2020.