Director
With PR2 at CSAIL, Ray and Maria Stata Center, MIT, 2012.
I am Dr. Seong-Woo Kim (김성우) an Associate Professor of Graduate School of Engineering Practice, Adjunct Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering (smart city major), Adjunct Professor of Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program, Adjunct Professor of Transdisciplinary Graduate Program in Smart City Global Convergence, Advisory professor of Ludic Culture Studies major (놀이문화학), and Study of Future major (미래학) in College of Liberal Studies, and Director of Autonomous Robot Intelligence Lab, Seoul National University. ARILab and VILab are jointly operated with Prof. Seung-Woo Seo. Before returning to SNU in 2014, I was a postdoctoral associate of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology working with Prof. Marcelo H. Ang Jr. at National University of Singapore, Prof. Emilio Frazzoli and Prof. Daniela Rus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Imagining the future turns me into a theorist, while bringing it into the present makes me an experimenter. As a pilot and coach, I have primarily formed and trained teams composed of brilliant minds, and I currently serve as the faculty advisor and main sponsor of the solar car racing team at SNU. Demolishing and constructing buildings and structures is something I thoroughly enjoy, often bringing a hands-on approach to projects. My experience includes scaling up projects from small teams to larger endeavors. [notion]
Email: snwoo@snu.ac.kr
Affiliation
Associate Professor, Seoul National University, 2021 -
Assistant Professor, Seoul National University, 2017 - 2021
Selected activities
Vice president, International Affairs, Korean Society for Engineering Education, 2025 - 2026
Executive Director, Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers, 2025
Executive Committee Member, Elected, IFEES (International Federation of Engineering Education Societies), 2025 - 2026
Sabbatical at Stanford University as a Visiting Scholar, 2023-2024
Advisory Professor of SNU GSEP Soccer Club, 2023 -
General Manager and Main Sponsor of SNU Solar Car Racing Team, 2022 -
Director, Carbon neutral ESG future leading practical problem research center (서울대학교 탄소중립ESG 현장연계 미래선도 인재양성 지원사업단), 2022 -
Associate Dean in Department of Engineering Practice, Seoul National University, 2022 - 2023
AI Committee (2022), Senator (2023-), Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
General Affairs Director, Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers, 2022
Vice Chairman, and Steering Committee, Social Contribution Competition of SNU Institute for Global Social Responsibility, 2021 - 2022
Seoul National University Professor Social Responsibility Group (교수사회공헌단), 2021 -
Faculty meeting for creativity education (서울대학교 창의성 교육을 위한 교수 모임), Seoul National University, 2021 -
Member of Academic Society for Appropriate Technology, 2021 -
Steering Committee, SNU Engineering Consulting Center, 2021 - 2023
Co-director of Center for Humane AI, 2020 -
Director of Autonomous Robot Intelligence Lab (자율로봇지능 연구실), 2018 -
Director of International Affairs, Korean Society for Engineering Education, 2017 -
Cooking dual degree program M.Eng. and M.B.A, 2017 - 2018
Advisory professor of SNUSV, 2016
SNU Idea Factory project: Design, build, operate, and educate, 2015 - 2017
SNUver project: Autonomous Campus Mobility using Driverless Taxi, 2014 - 2016
Awards and Achievement
Outstanding Paper Award at IEIE AI Signal Processing Symposium, Oct. 18, 2024
ICEIC’22, Best Paper awarded at Haedong Student Research Competition, Feb. 8, 2022, “Non-myopic Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Driving Combining Single-Query and Multi-Query Methods”
Team Rudolf won the First Prize (the Prime Minister's Award) at Creative Capstone Design Competition, National Engineering Festival, Nov. 2020 [link]
ICISC'19, Bronze awarded, Dec, 2019, "LizarMong: Excellent Key Encapsulation Mechanism based on RLWE and RLWR" (Acceptance ratio < 25%)
IEEE CIS & RAM, Nominated for best student paper award, Angkor Wat, Cambodia, 16 July 2015 "Precise Free Space Detection and Its Application to Background Extraction"
IEEE ICCVE'14, Best Paper Finalist, Vienna, Austria, 7 Nov. 2014, "Cooperative Autonomous Driving using Cooperative Perception and Mirror Neuron Inspired Intention Awareness" (Acceptance ratio: 33.5%)
IEEE Wireless VITAE'09 Outstanding Student Paper Award, Aalborg, Denmark, 19 May 2009, "Dual authentications for fast handoff in IEEE 802.11 WLANs: a reactive approach"
IEEE ISCE'07 Best Student Paper Award, Dallas, Texas, 22 June 2007, "Dynamic sensing level selection for energy efficiency in wireless sensor network"
Fellowship from Samsung Electronics, Sep. 2008 - Aug. 2011
Media
서울대 공대 김성우 교수, 세계공학교육단체협의회(IFEES) 집행위원 선출, Nov. 1, 2024 [link]
AI 시대 속 미래의 인간을 조망하다, ‘생성형 AI로 상상한 관악구의 3가지의 미래’, Jan. 23, 2024 [link]
서울대 태양광 차 호주 월드솔라챌리지 대회 도전기, Sep. 29, 2023 [link]
서울대 동아리 스누 솔로, 오는 10월 호주 세계 최대 태양광 자동차 경주 대회 출사표, Aug. 2, 2023 [link]
서울대, 탄소중립 ESG ‘현장연계 미래선도 인재양성 지원사업’ 선정, Mar. 17, 2022 [link1][link2]
서울대 공대 자율로봇지능 연구실-아트센터 나비, 공동 연구 개발한 AI 창작 도우미 ‘젠이’ 공개, Nov. 20, 2021 [link]
동아일보, 공학도의 상상, 내일의 현실이 되다, Dec. 10, 2020 [link]
서울대 공대/공학전문대학원-아트센터 나비, 인공지능 문화예술 연구 MOU 협약, Jan. 28, 2020 [link1][link2]
KBS, 4차산업혁명시대의 교육2, Dec. 8, 2017 [link]
매일경제, '기름과 물' 공대·미대의 협업…서울대생, AI로봇 7개 만들다 (1면), July 14, 2017 [link]
조선일보, 초등생때부터 글쓰고 말하고 만드는 교육을, Jan. 19, 2017 [link]
조선일보, 수학·물리 공식 외우는 대신 세상에 없는 제품 만들어보라 (1면), Jan. 2, 2017 [link]
조선일보, 교수 농담까지 달달 외워 A+ 받는 시대 끝내자, Jan. 2, 2017 [link]
KBS, 열정 미래를 열다, Jan. 1, 2017 [link]
서울경제, [경제교실] 자율주행 자동차 삶을 어떻게 바꿀까요?, Oct. 18, 2016, [link]
매일경제, 서울공대교수 10명중 3명 "中대학 언제든 갈것"…인재 엑소더스, Sep. 20, 2016, [link]
매일경제, "망하면 어때"…강의실 뛰쳐나온 `제 2잡스`, Aug. 28, 2016 [link]
전자신문, 대학생 창업 인큐베이터 `아이디어 팩토리`엔 성공 꿈이 영근다, Aug. 15, 2016 [link]
KBS, 상상만 하지 말고 직접 만들어라! 메이커운동 열풍, June 27, 2016 [link]
매일경제, "글로벌상품 개발" 한·중·홍콩 수재들 뭉쳤다, June 21, 2016 [link]
매일경제, 서울대 아이디어 팩토리 만든 `창조 3박자`, Feb. 22, 2016 [link]
The New York Times, "Self-Driving Cars May Get Here Before We’re Ready," Jan. 21, 2016 [link]
BBC, "Robot Cars Look to Beat Congestion," April 23, 2013 [link]
Academic Services
Conference and Workshop Organizing
Technical Program Committee of WEEF and GEDC 2025
General Chair of X-AICON 2019, X-AICON 2020, X-AICON 2021, X-AICON 2022, and X-AICON 2023
Program Committee of AAAI'22
Organizing Committee of ICEIC (International Conference on Electronics, Information, and Communication) 2021, and 2022
Program Committee of TALE 2020 [link]
A guest editor for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems: Special Issue Applications and Systems for Collaborative Driving, 2016-2017
Member of Korean Society for Engineering Education, Korea Information Processing Society, Academic Society for Appropriate Technology.
Local Chair, International Conference on Electronics, Information and Communication (ICEIC), Singapore, Jan. 2015
Technical Program Committee for VCSC (International Workshop on Vehicular Communications, Sensing, and Computing), 2012
Journal reviewer for
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
IEEE Control Systems Magazine
IEEE Communications Magazine
Computer Vision and Image Understanding - Elsevier
Transportation Research Part C - Elsevier
Robotics and Autonomous Systems - Elsevier
Conference reviewer for
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC)
IEEE Conference on Vehicular Technology (VTC)
IEEE International conferences on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems, & Robotics, Automation and Mechantronics (CIS & RAM)
International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER)
(Top left) Above Silicon Valley and the Pacific Ocean, (top right) in front of Annapurna in Nepal, (bottom left) in front of Nitmiluk forest, and (bottom right) in the Cooper Pedy desert of Australia.