Sunghwan Kim

Sunghwan Kim (김성환)

Email: suk063 AT ucsd.edu
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Hi! My name is Sunghwan Kimpronounced "Sung-Hwahn" (su as in "sun"). I also go by Shawn. I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego, where I am a member of the Existential Robotics Laboratory. I'm fortunate to be 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.

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My research goal is to enable mobile robots to autonomously perform long-horizon tasks requiring physical interaction in large-scale, unstructured environments. In particular, I am currently exploring how 3D maps can enhance long-horizon reasoning in robot policies. My research is centered on neural scene representations, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), and robot learning.

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