Summary
Daehyung Park is an Associate Professor at KAIST School of Computing and founder of the Robust Intelligence and Robotics (RIRO) Lab, specializing in mobile manipulation, learning- and planning-based robotic systems, and human-robot interaction. With 13 years of experience spanning academia and industry, he brings a rare blend of Samsung Electronics R&D practice, a PhD from Georgia Tech, and postdoctoral work at MIT CSAIL to tackle real-world collaborative robotics challenges. His work has earned awards such as the ICRA Outstanding Planning Paper and a Google Research Scholar Award, reflecting strengths in robust execution monitoring and navigation. Known for bridging multimodal perception with task planning, he focuses on making robots reliable partners in human environments rather than just capable manipulators.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Southern California
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Osaka University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics at Georgia Institute of Technology