JAN. 14, 2027
Prof. Kim delivers a keynote talk, “Physical AI: Bridging Communication, Understanding, and Control,” at the 41st International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN 2027). https://icoin.org/program_keynote
Oct. 3, 2026
Prof. Kim delivers the keynote address at the 51st Jeongseon Arirang Festival, titled “Forward, Arirang.” [Manuscript] https://arirangfestival.kr/
Oct. 1, 2026
Commemorative photo from the premiere performance of the Engineering Orchestration course during SNU Arts Week.
Sep. 18, 2026
A packed classroom at Seoul National University, with students (>100) getting hands-on with robots! Week 3 of How to Make a Robot with Artificial Intelligence (M2177.002600), learning robotics by building, experimenting, and making things move. /w TA Seongmin and Jiyoon.
Sep. 18, 2026
KSEE Annual Conference – International Session, together with the President of ASEE, representatives from JSEE, CSEE, and SEEM, and KMUTNB. Prof. Kim participates as KSEE Vice President for International Affairs.
Sep. 12, 2026
Professor Kim delivered a keynote address at the Korean Society for Music Theory, titled “AI as a Mirror of Humanity: Music, Creativity, and Orchestration.”
Sep. 1, 2026
Congratulations to ARIL alumnus Dr. Donghwi Jung (Smart City Engineering Major) has been appointed as an Assistant Professor in the School of Electronic Engineering, at Soongsil University. https://donghwijung.github.io/
Aug 25, 2026
Physical AI Forum 2026, organized by Prof. Kim, with The Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers (IEIE). [news]
Aug 5, 2026
US-Korea Conference 2026, Orlando.
July 9, 2026
JuLY 4, 2026
Prof. Kim will launch a new course, Engineering Orchestration, jointly with Prof. Sungkn Kim from the School of Music at SNU.
https://snuaril.github.io/2026-fall-courseworks/eng_orchest/
JuLY 3, 2026
Prof. Kim hosted the Tutorial for Engineering Faculty: Teaching and Learning. at SNU.
Mar. 1. 2026
Congratulations to ARIL alumnus Dr. Mingu Jeon (Electrical and Computer Engineering) has been appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Pusan National University. https://mingujeon.github.io/epi-lab/
June 18, 2026
New conference papers accepted for European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
Reflection-Aware Reasoning for Non-Line-of-Sight Pedestrian Localization
Apr. 9, 2026
New article accepted in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
SPREAD: Scalable Pre-trained World Model for Adaptive Dynamics Model
FEB. 21, 2026
24 NVIDIA H200 GPUs have joined the lab.
Feb. 13, 2026
New members just joined us.
Jan. 28, 2026
Out hour of lecture, followed by another full hour of Q&A.
One of the most question-filled, high-energy seminars I’ve had in recent times. Truly felt the passion of Hanyang University.
Invited talk
Research Ethics Seminar: Creative and Research Ethics in the Age of AI - Lessons from Cases in Culture and the Arts.
Nov. 30, 2025
SNU Humanoid Club begins. https://humanoid.snu.ac.kr
Oct. 21, 2026
ARIL presented four papers at the 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2026), Hangzhou, China.
Oct. 20, 2025
SNU Campus in the World
AI global startup camp at Silicon Valley
Oct. 17, 2025
Invited talk “From Code to Curtain” by Prof. Kim at the Federation for Asian Cultural Promotion (FACP) 2025.
SEP. 26, 2025
An AI University invited talk by Prof. Hans van Oostrom from the University of Florida, invited and coordinated by Prof. Kim.
SEP. 23, 2025
With delegations from ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education), CSEE (Chinese Society for Engineering Education), IFEES (International Federation of Engineering Education Societies), JSEE (Japanese Society for Engineering Education), and KSEE (Korean Society for Engineering Education) - listed in alphabetical order - in a session arranged and chaired by Prof. Kim, International Session of the Korean Engineering Education Conference, 2025.
SEP. 22, 2025
Prof. Kim has been elected as a Fellow of the Korean Society for Engineering Education (KSEE).
SEP. 18, 2025
Second Asian Engineering Education Forum, SEFI 2025, Tampere University, Finland.
Aug. 29, 2025
We’ve made it to Adelaide.
Aug. 29, 2025
Special talk by Prof. Gerald Schuller from Institut fuer Medientechnik, Angewandte Mediensysteme, TU Ilmenau, Germany, invited and coordinated by Prof. Kim.
July 11, 2025
AI Talent: Special talk by Matthew BAE, Senior Product Manager from Meta, invited and coordinated by Prof. Kim.
June 16, 2025
New conference papers accepted for IIEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Language as Cost: Proactive Hazard Mapping using VLM for Robot Navigation
Radar-Based NLoS Pedestrian Localization for Darting-Out Scenarios Near Parked Vehicles with Camera-Assisted Point Cloud Interpretation
mmWave Radar-Based Non-Line-of-Sight Pedestrian Localization at T-Junctions Utilizing Road Layout Extraction via Camera
April 24, 2025
New article accepted in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
GOTPR: General Outdoor Text-based Place Recognition Using Scene Graph Retrieval with OpenStreetMap
MAR. 31, 2025
New conference paper accepted for IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium (IV)
Non-Line-of-Sight Multi-Target Localization in T-Junctions Using Ray Tracing of mmWave Radar
Feb. 21, 2025
New article accepted in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
Point Cloud Structural Similarity-based Underwater Sonar Loop Detection
JAN. 28, 2025
New conference papers accepted for ICRA'25.
E2Map: Experience-and-Emotion Map for Self-Reflective Robot Navigation with Language Models
Context-Based Visual Language Place Recognition
Nov. 2, 2024
Journal paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Non-Line-of-Sight Vehicle Localization based on Sound
Oct. 31, 2024
The donation ceremony of Korea's first urban autonomous vehicle, SNUver, to the Gwacheon National Science Museum, in which Prof. Kim participated. At the ceremony, Prof. Seung-Woo Seo, who was the PI of the project, Prof. Kim, and the Dean of Seoul National University College of Engineering (from the third person from the left, moving leftward), Oct. 31, 2024. [IEEE]
Aug. 29, 2024
Journal paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology
Extremely Rare Anomaly Detection Pipeline in Semiconductor Bonding Process with Digital Twin-driven Data Augmentation Method
Aug. 18, 2024
New conference paper accepted for ECCV'24.
Non-verbal Interaction and Interface with a Quadruped Robot using Body and Hand Gestures: Design and User Experience Evaluation [video]
June 14, 2024
Visit of the Council of Engineering Deans of Thailand (CEDT) to Seoul National University, hosted by Prof. Kim: joined by the Dean and the Associate Dean for International Affairs, SNU Engineering.
Jan 29, 2024
New conference paper accepted for ICRA'24.
Active Automotive Augmented Reality Displays using Reinforcement Learning [video]
OCT 27, 2023
Finish line, Adelaide, Australia
OCT 22, 2023
Starting line, Darwin, Australia
JULY 31, 2023
Seoul National University Solar Vehicle Team, SNU SOLO, Launching Ceremony
SNU SOLO launching ceremony [link]
APR. 20, 2023
New conference paper accepted for International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2023
SeRO: Self-Supervised Reinforcement Learning for Recovery from Out-of-Distribution Situations
Feb. 7, 2023
Bronze prize won at ICEIC 2023.
LoRCoN-LO: Long-Term Recurrent Convolutional Network-Based LiDAR Odometry
Feb. 4, 2023
Journal paper accepted in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IF: 10.238
Machinery Value Estimation Method based on IIoT System Utilizing 1D-CNN Model for Low Sampling Rate Vibration Signals from MEMS
JAN. 17, 2023
New conference paper accepted for ICRA'23.
Low-level controller in response to changes in quadrotor dynamics
Dec. 14, 2022
ARIL experimental facility is under construction from ground.
Dec. 5, 2022
Prof. Kim delivered an invited talk titled “Application of AI and Robotics Technologies in Defense” at the Defense ICT Civil-Military Cooperation Colloquium, 2022
Dec. 8, 2022
New article accepted in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
GIN: Graph-based Interaction-aware Constraint Policy Optimization for Autonomous Driving [IEEE]
Nov. 24, 2022
The 2022 Symposium on Strengthening National Competitiveness in Semiconductor Back-End Processing was held, with Prof. Kim serving as a member of the organizing committee [link].
Nov. 10, 2022
AEESEAP (Association for Engineering Education in Southeast Asia and the Pacific), Thailand, 2022.
Prof. Kim participated in the annual meeting of AEESEAP 2022 as a representative of the Korean Scociety for Engineering Education.
OCT. 14, 2022
Prof. Kim gave a talk in Saving Korea through creativity education
Suggestions for no upper limit education: A extracurricular perspective.
June 30, 2022
Industry-interested award at the Summer Annual Conference of Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers, sponsored by Naver
Real-time Detection of Driver Drowsiness in Autonomous Driving Environment
Bronze prize won at the Summer Annual Conference of Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
Monitoring System for Training Mobile Robot Driving Pattern and Path Planning based on Reinforcement Learning.
June 28, 2022
New article accepted in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2022 with IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
UNICON: Uncertainty-Conditioned Policy for Robust Behavior in Unfamiliar Scenarios [IEEE]
May 19, 2022
Recruitment of participating students in World Solar Challenge
APR. 27, 2022
New research project granted from the National Research Foundation, United States
International Research Experience for Students (IRES) program with Vilanova University
MA.R 8, 2022
MAR. 4, 2022
New research project granted from the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy, and the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology
Feb. 8, 2022
First prize won at Haedong paper award competition of ICEIC 2022.
Non-myopic Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Driving Combining Single-Query and Multi-Query Methods
feb. 1, 2022
New conference paper accepted for ICRA'22.
Fast Point Clouds Upsampling with Uncertainty Quantification for Autonomous Vehicles
Jan. 17, 2022
Journal paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology
A Contactless PCBA Defect Detection Method: Convolutional Neural Networks with Thermographic Images
Nov. 19, 2021
New exhibition at the party in a box [link]
OCt. 26, 2021
Journal paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Design of V2X-Based Vehicular Contents Centric Networks for Autonomous Driving [IEEE]
July 1, 2021
New conference papers accepted for IROS'21.
STFP: Simultaneous Traffic scene Forecasting and Planning for Autonomous Driving
Self-Balancing of Online Dataset for Incremental Driving Intelligence
March 1, 2021
New conference paper accepted for ICRA'21,
Uncertainty-Aware Fast Curb Detection Using Convolutional Networks in Point Clouds
Dec. 17, 2020
New Exhibition opened: Play on AI [link]
Nov. 27, 2020
Team Rudolf won the First Prize (Prime Minister's Award) at Creative Capstone Design Competition, National Engineering Festival [link]
Sep. 6, 2020
Journal paper published in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems [link]
Aug. 6, 2020
Selected in Brain Korea 21 (BK21), SNU Smart City Global Convergence major [link]
June 19, 26, 2020
XAICON 2020 [link]
Jan. 28, 2020
MOU signed with Art Center Nabi for Humane AI [link]