I build robot software and control architectures that connect learning-based intelligence with reliable physical execution.

Recent advances in Vision-Language-Action models have enabled increasingly general robot behavior, but their effectiveness on real hardware still depends on more than generating poses, waypoints, or trajectories. I am interested in making these systems more contact-aware, execution-aware, and physically grounded, particularly for manipulation tasks where success depends on how a robot interacts with the world as much as where it moves.

My research focuses on policies and control systems that account for motion feasibility, contact, compliance, force, uncertainty, and execution feedback. Drawing on experience in robotic manipulation, real-time control, teleoperation, and robot software infrastructure, I approach Physical AI through the execution layer—how learned intelligence interfaces with sensing, control, timing, and hardware constraints to produce stable and adaptive behavior on physical robots.

• Execution-Aware Physical AI
  Multimodal robotic foundation models and learning-based sensorimotor intelligence for embodied agents, with an emphasis on policies that account for physical feasibility, contact, feedback, and real robot constraints.

• Dexterous Manipulation and Robotic Hands
  Functional grasping, dexterous hand control, and contact- and force-aware manipulation that enable robots to interact with objects according to their physical properties and intended use.

• Humanoid Motion, Retargeting, and Teleoperation
  Whole-body motion realization, sparse motion tracking, real-time human-to-robot retargeting, and teleoperation across different robot embodiments.

• Real-Time Robot Systems
  Software and control architectures that connect learned policies with sensing, communication, and physical hardware, including real-time control, system integration, and communication protocol design.

• Robotics Researcher at Robotics SW Team (Team Lead), Tommoro Robotics, Seoul, Korea (2026.07 – Present)
• Robotics Researcher at Robot Platform Team, Tommoro Robotics, Seoul, Korea (2025.11 – 2026.07)
• System Software Engineer at Recreational Boat Autonomous Team, Avikus, HD Hyundai, Seoul, Korea (2023.01 – 2025.11)
• Undergraduate Researcher at Center for Intelligent and Interactive Robotics, AI·Robot Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea (2022.06 – 2022.08)
• Undergraduate Researcher at Center for Intelligent and Interactive Robotics, AI·Robot Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea (2021.12 – 2022.02)

• M.S. in Artificial Intelligence, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (2026.03 – Present)
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea (2017.03 – 2023.02)

• Languages — C · C++ · Python · MATLAB
• Robotics — ROS 2 · ros2_control · MoveIt 2
• Simulation — MuJoCo
• Vision & Geometry — OpenCV · GEOS
• Communication & Hardware Interfaces — DDS · ZeroMQ · gRPC · EtherCAT
• Application Development — Qt · wxWidgets
• Data — PostgreSQL · SQLite
• Systems & Tooling — Linux · Docker · CMake · Git