Junghwan Yim
Graduate Research Assistant
Buffalo, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJunghwan Yim is a multidisciplinary researcher and engineer with nine years of experience applying AI, robotics, and high-performance computing to real-world systems, currently pursuing a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech after an MS in Computational Physics. He develops perception and control solutions for autonomous vehicles—building traffic-sign knowledge graphs, training YOLO/RCNN detectors, and creating reinforcement-learning lane agents validated in CARLA—while integrating results into ROS-based HD maps. At SK C&C USA he translated research into industry by leading AI and robotics pre-sales, PoCs, and factory automation projects for large-scale battery manufacturing and logistics, including digital twin and AGV simulations. His background spans end-to-end systems from embedded IMU-based biometric authentication and CycleGAN sensor transfer to cloud-scale data pipelines and TensorFlow servers built during service in the ROK Army. Known for bridging research and productization, he combines deep quantitative modeling with hands-on system integration to close the gap between prototypes and deployable autonomous solutions. An uncommon strength is his experience across physics, CS, and business domains, enabling pragmatic designs that account for both algorithmic performance and operational constraints.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Hankuk University of Foreign StudiesDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Computational Physics, Master of Science - MS Computational Physics at University at BuffaloBachelor’s Degree Physics with Pre-Law, Bachelor’s Degree Physics with Pre-Law at State University of New York at Fredonia
English, Korean
Github Skills (5)
css7
web-development7
traffic3
pytorch1
kitti1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JacobYim/CSE442-BuyNSell
Feb 2019 - May 2019
This is the repository for the CSE442 BuyNSell Web app project.
Contributions:113 commits, 103 PRs, 105 pushes in 3 months
web-developmentcss
JacobYim/Traffic-Sign-Detection-Dataset
Sep 2021 - Jan 2022
This repository is dataset for traffic-sign-detection
Contributions:19 commits, 3 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 months
signdatasettraffic-sign-detectiontraffic-signtraffic
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