Sangwoon Kim

Robotics Ph.D. Student at MIT

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Available for Full-time Opportunities

  • Upon completing my Ph.D. at MIT in Summer 2024 (dates are flexible), I will be seeking full-time employment. Please reach out if you are interested in working with me.

I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Mechanical Engineering department at MIT, where I am mentored by Professor Alberto Rodriguez. My research interests are primarily in robot manipulation and automation.

My past experience includes an internship as an applied scientist at Amazon Robotics AI. I also hold an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, where I had the opportunity to work with Dr. Brian Anthony. My foundational studies were at Seoul National University, where I earned a B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

Key Research Areas: Robot Manipulation, Reinforcement Learning, Tactile Sensing

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selected publications

  1. Simultaneous Tactile Estimation and Control for In-hand Object Manipulation (coming soon!)
    *Sangwoon Kim, *Antonia Bronars, Parag Patre, and Alberto Rodriguez
    In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024
  2. Simultaneous Tactile Estimation and Control of Extrinsic Contact
    Sangwoon Kim, Devesh Jha, Diego Romeres, Parag Patre, and Alberto Rodriguez
    In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023
  3. Active extrinsic contact sensing: Application to general peg-in-hole insertion
    Sangwoon Kim, and Alberto Rodriguez
    In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2022
  4. Dynamic control of a fiber manufacturing process using deep reinforcement learning
    *Sangwoon Kim, *David Donghyun Kim, and Brian W Anthony
    IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics 2021
  5. Tactile-rl for insertion: Generalization to objects of unknown geometry
    Siyuan Dong, Devesh K Jha, Diego Romeres, Sangwoon Kim, Daniel Nikovski, and Alberto Rodriguez
    In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2021