Gi-cheon Kang
Assistant Professor at Ajou University
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolGi-cheon Kang is an assistant professor at Ajou University and director of the Human-Centered Embodied Intelligence Lab, specializing in robot learning and multimodal AI to build generalist robots using semantic priors from large foundation models. With nine years of experience spanning a PhD and postdoctoral work at Seoul National University, he has contributed to vision-language-action research for robot manipulation and published work tied to high-profile venues like RSS and CVPR. His background includes industry research stints at NAVER Cloud and SK Telecom where he advanced semi-supervised and sparse-structure methods for visual dialog, reflecting a strong bridge between academic rigor and applied systems. Based in Seoul, he blends cognitive and engineering training to push robots toward more generalizable, human-centered behavior—often leveraging insights from large-scale multimodal models that are not obvious from typical robotics resumes.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at Seoul National UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Ajou University
Github Skills (44)
markdown10
attention-mechanism10
dialog10
github-pages10
gitpod10
jekyll10
computer-vision10
dlib10
pose9
python9
visual-recognition9
deep-learning8
vision-and-language8
natural-language-processing8
machine-learning8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gicheonkang/fast-face-android
May 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:31 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
gicheonkang/gicheonkang.github.io
Mar 2019 - Mar 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:1390 pushes, 1 comment in 6 years 1 month
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
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