Pyojin Kim

Assistant Professor
School of Mechanical Engineering
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology

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Education

Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, 2013 – 2019

Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Thesis: Low-Drift Visual Odometry and SLAM for Indoor Robotics

Advisor: Prof. H. Jin Kim

Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, 2009 – 2013

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering

Academic Experience

Assistant Professor, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, 2023 – Present

Assistant Professor, Sookmyung Women’s Univ., Seoul, South Korea, 2020 – 2023

Postdoctoral Fellow, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, 2019 – 2020

Graduate Student Intern, Google, Mountain View, CA, US, 2018 – 2018

Graduate Student Intern, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, US, 2016 – 2016

Selected Honors

• Outstanding Young Researcher Award, IEEE ICCAS, 2023.
• Outstanding Poster Presentation Award, IEEE ICCAS, 2022.
• 15-th KAI Aerospace Paper Award, Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), 2018.
• Doctoral Consortium, CVPR 2018.
• 24-th HumanTech Paper Award, Samsung Electronics, 2018.

Selected Service

• Program Committee
  • Associate Editor, UR 2024
  • Associate Editor, IJCAS
  • Associate Editor, ICRA 2022, 2023, 2024
  • Publicity Chair, ICCAS 2024

Contact

Email: pjinkim@gist.ac.kr
Phone: +82-62-715-2805
Office: S1-203