Published multiple papers in conferences such as ICRA 2023, ICRA 2022, CASE 2023, and preprints. Received several honors including Kwanjeong Overseas Scholarship, ICRA Travel Grant, and Global Young Scientist Summit Participant.
Research Experience
Research Assistant at the Human Centered Autonomy Lab, UIUC, from Aug. 2019 to Present; Research Assistant at the Information Coding and Processing Lab, Ewha Womans University, from Oct. 2017 to June 2019; Research Intern at Honda Research Institute, San Jose, CA, USA, from May to Aug. 2024.
Education
Pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign since 2019, under the supervision of Prof. Katherine Driggs-Campbell; received B.S. in Electronics Engineering from Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea in 2018; exchange student at San Diego State University in Fall 2015 and Temple University in Spring 2016.
Background
Ph.D. candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at UIUC, with research interests in robot planning, perception, machine learning, human-robot interaction, active inference, and foundation models.
Miscellany
Served as a Teaching Assistant for Korean Elementary Class at San Diego State University in Fall 2015 and a Tutor for Samsung Dream Class Middle School in Siheung, South Korea, in Fall 2016.