Jigang Kim
Senior Research Engineer at Holiday Robotics
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolJigang Kim is a Senior Research Engineer based in Seoul with eight years of experience at the intersection of robotics, reinforcement learning, and dexterous manipulation. He holds a PhD in Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation from Seoul National University and has progressed from intern roles at KIST to postdoctoral and research positions at SNU and KIST before joining industry teams at Samsung and Holiday Robotics. His work emphasizes robot learning for complex manipulation tasks, blending rigorous academic research with applied engineering to push systems toward real-world deployment. Known for moving between top research institutes and industry labs, he brings both experimental depth and product-aware instincts to robot learning problems. An underappreciated strength is his consistent academic-to-industry trajectory, enabling rapid translation of novel RL methods into robotic systems.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Seoul National UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Gyeonggi Science High School for the Gifted (경기과학고등학교)International School of Beijing
English, Korean
Github Skills (17)
nvidia9
multi-gpu8
gpu7
reinforcement-learning7
cuda6
tensorflow6
task-scheduler5
robotics5
scheduling4
deep-learning3
deep-reinforcement-learning2
linux1
openvpn1
vpn1
namespaces1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jigangkim/nvidia-gpu-scheduler
Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
NVIDIA GPU compute task scheduling utility
Contributions:5 releases, 35 commits, 24 pushes in 2 years 11 months
cudaschedulingnvidiagpureinforcement-learning
jigangkim/earl_benchmark_fork
Jul 2022 - Aug 2023
EARL: Environment for Autonomous Reinforcement Learning
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
reinforcement-learningautonomousearlreinforcement
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