Sunghwan Kim (김성환)

Hi! My name is Sunghwan Kim, pronounced “Sung-Hwahn” (su as in “sun”). I am a PhD student at UC San Diego, working at Existential Robotics Laboratory under the guidance of Prof. Nikolay Atanasov.

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.

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My research goal is to enable mobile robots to perform long-horizon tasks in large-scale environments. Currently, I am focusing on building neural representations for robot policy learning. I am interested in the following topics:

• Implicit neural representations
• Latent feature mapping
• Neural SLAM
• Mobile manipulation