Obin Kwon
Scholar

Obin Kwon

Google Scholar ID: lYyI3QcAAAAJ
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
RoboticsComputer VisionEmbodied AIVisual Navigation
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
270
 
H-index
4
 
i10-index
3
 
Publications
16
 
Co-authors
22
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Publications: RNR-Nav: A Real-World Visual Navigation System Using Renderable Neural Radiance Maps (IROS 2024, oral presentation); WayIL: Image-based Indoor Localization with Wayfinding Maps (ICRA 2024); CHILD (Controller for Humanoid Imitation and Live Demonstration) (arXiv, Jul 2025); PAPRLE (Plug-And-Play Robotic Limb Environment) (arXiv, Jul 2025). Awards: Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award, ECE, SNU, Aug 2024.
Research Experience
  • Currently a postdoc in KIMLAB, UIUC, working with Joohyung Kim; Intern at Naver LABS from Jan.-June 2023; Robotics researcher at Sequor Robotics, Inc. from Oct 2023 to Jun 2024.
Education
  • Ph.D. in ECE, Seoul National University, supervised by Songhwai Oh; B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, SNU, graduated in 2018.
Background
  • Research Interests: Embodied AI, Robot Learning with Computer Vision, Machine Learning. Focuses on translating sensory information into effective robot action policies, developing novel scene representations from vision signals, and creating robot policies that effectively use these representations to perform high-level tasks.
Miscellany
  • Feel free to contact me via email if you are interested in my research or even me.