About me

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at KAIST, where I recently completed my Ph.D.  co-advised by Prof. Kuk-Jin Yoon and Prof.  In So Kweon. I obtained my B.S. from Kwangwoon University and M.S. from KAIST. I have been fortunate to collaborate with NVIDIA Research (2022 - 2025),  Meta Reality (2024), and Adobe Research (2023).   I am a recipient of the Jang Young Sil Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Presidential Award of Korea.

My research focuses on Physical AI for the real world. My long-term goal is to develop intelligent systems that enable people to transform ideas into physical reality.

I am actively seeking full-time opportunities starting in 2026. Please feel free to reach out.

Experience

• KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
  Mar. 2019 - Present
  Research Assistant

• Adobe Research, San Jose, CA
  May 2023 - Aug. 2023
  Research Intern

• NVIDIA Research, Redmond, WA (Remote)
  Mar. 2022 - Sep. 2022
  Research Intern

• PeopleSpace, Irvine, CA
  Dec. 2018 - Feb. 2019
  Intern

• Robot Sports Game Team (RO:BIT), Seoul, Korea
  Sep. 2015 - Dec. 2018
  Research Assistant

Projects
* equal contribution              † corresponding author                   

Awards & Honors

• Best Paper Award, CVPRW@CV4MR, June 2025

• Jang Young Sil Postdoctoral Fellowship (KAIST), May 2025

• 2nd Place, KAIST EE Graduate School Futsal Competition, Oct. 2023

• Finalist, Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Korea, Nov. 2022 [Certificate]

• International Elite Summer School - Robotics and Entrepreneurship (SDU), Aug. 2022 [Certificate]

• Best Demo Presentation Award, Robust Manipulation by Visual Learning (IW-FCV), Feb. 2020 [Video] [Poster] [Certificate]

• Achievement Award,  Kwangwoon University, Feb. 2019 [Certificate]

• Special Technology Award, R-BIZ Challenge TURTLEBOT3 AUTORACE (ROBOTIS), Nov. 2018 [Certificate]

• Gold Prize, Sumo Robot, International Robot Contest (MOTIE), Oct. 2018  [Certificate]

• President Award, R-BIZ DST Robot Multi-Mission Challenge, Sept. 2017 [Certificate]

• 2nd Place, RoboCup World Open Teen-Size Humanoid Soccer League Technical Challenge, July 2017 [Video] [Press] [Certificate] 

• 5th Place, RoboCup Iran Open Rescue, Apr. 2017 [Report] [Certificate]

• 1st Place, RoboCup  Korea Open Rescue, Feb. 2017 [Press] [Certificate]

• Silver Prize, Intelligent Humanoid Robot Sports Competition, International Robot Contest (MOTIE), Oct. 2016 [Press] [Certificate]

• Special Technology Award, National AI Robot Competition (Kyungnam University), Aug. 2016 [Video] [Certificate]

• Silver Prize, Sumo Robot, International Robot Contest (KIPO), Nov. 2015 [Certificate]

• Grand Award, TRIZ Competition for Creative Engineering Design (Kwangwoon University), Oct. 2015 [Certificate]

• Creative Design Award, Engineering Contest (Kwangwoon University), May 2015 [Certificate]

Activities

• Talks

  • • ICCV@WCLOP, Category-Level Object Pose Estimation in the Wild, Oct 2025

    • Samsung DX@Global Technology Research, Oct 2025

    • UNIST@3D Vision Lab, July 2025

    • ECCV@R6D, Recovering 6D Object Pose, Sep. 2024 [Video]

    • Pay it forward, 2018 - Present [Project]

• Organizer, BOP: Benchmark for 6D Object Pose Estimation, 2024 [Link]

• Reviewer at CVPR, NeurIPS, ICRA

• RO:BIT, President, 2017 [Interview] 

• Organizer, K-Robot Competition with RO:BIT, 2015 - 2018 [2016 Video] [2017 Video] [2018 Video]

Patent

• Generating images (18/218,527) [Link]

• Grasp pose predictions (18/219,031) [Link]

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