I studied mechanical engineering at Sungkyunkwan University, graduating summa cum laude and first of 186 in my department. At the Advanced Mobility and Robotics Lab, I led the robot design of WORM, a worm-inspired colonoscopy robot developed in close collaboration with a materials lab. I later led a team of six to build Gyecko, a compact pipe-inspection robot designed to navigate turns in confined spaces. On the learning side, I adapted a reinforcement-learning controller for the Bolt biped and developed a perceptive locomotion framework for the Unitree Go2 at SKKU's Lab of Artificial Intelligence & Robotics to investigate how terrain observations and their representations affect Actor–Critic locomotion learning (Go2 Extreme Parkour).
Since 2025, I've been a Robotics & ML Researcher at FineVT, where I'm completing Korea's alternative military service. There, I collaborate with a senior colleague on an AI-agent-driven robotic system. While he develops the AI agent, I focus on the robot-control and execution layer that connects the agent's decisions to physical robot-arm motion and camera operations. I also work on a multi-view 3D reconstruction pipeline that turns captured images into 3D models.
Outside of work, I'm building CATCH, a custom transformable humanoid designed to combine legged locomotion with torso-mounted tracks. CATCH is also the first testbed for a design-to-learning pipeline I'm developing to connect CAD, simulation, learning-based control, and eventually hardware deployment. I hope it will eventually feel like a playful little friend, able to express itself through movement and gestures.
These experiences have made me think about how closely a robot's body and behavior are connected. In the long run, I want to create many kinds of robots, each with its own character and purpose, that people can both rely on and enjoy having around. To explore new bodies and behaviors without starting from scratch each time, I want to studybody–policy co-design and morphology-conditioned predictive models that can help evaluate how a new robot body might behave before it is built.
I hold both U.S. and Korean citizenship. If you're building robots with character, or researching how a robot's body and behavior shape each other, I'd be glad to hear from you.