Sunghwan Kim
김성환

Hi! My name is Sunghwan Kimpronounced "Sung-Hwahn" (su as in "sun"). I also go by Shawn. I am a PhD student at UC San Diego, working at Existential Robotics Laboratory, advised by Prof. Nikolay Atanasov. I'm also closely working with Prof. Yulun Tian at University of Michigan. Previously, I was a research officer at the Agency for Defense Development (ADD), the South Korean counterpart to the U.S. DARPA. I received my B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics (double major) at KAIST.

My research goal is to enable mobile robots to perform long-horizon tasks in large-scale environments autonomously. I'm interested in the intersection of robot mapping and policy learning (e.g., RL, VLA). My current focus includes neural scene representations, neural SLAM, and reinforcement learning (e.g., world models).

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