Junyeob Baek
Ph.D. Student at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Seoul, South Korea
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Top SchoolJunyeob Baek is a Ph.D. student at KAIST with nine years of industry and research experience bridging robotics, reinforcement learning, and optimization. He has driven applied ML and robotics projects from AMR navigation and welding-task optimization in manufacturing to learning-based pose estimation and multi-robot planning systems. His background includes roles as an ML research engineer and robotics software lead, plus a visiting stint with Yoshua Bengio’s group at Mila, reflecting a mix of practical deployments and cutting-edge research. Interested in "lifelong developmental agents," Junyeob combines strong academic training (top grades in robotics and advanced AI studies at KAIST) with hands-on productization experience in smart factories. Notably, his work has spanned both algorithm development and production integration, including population-based multi-objective optimization and trajectory swept-volume scheduling for multi-robot systems. Based in Seoul, he focuses on building embodied agents that learn and adapt over long horizons.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Robotics, 4.29/4.5, Bachelor's degree, Robotics, 4.29/4.5 at Hanyang UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Github Skills (54)
pytorch10
robotics10
py10
python10
toolbox10
openai-gym10
sac10
reinforcement-learning10
stable-baselines10
moveit10
ai10
ddpg10
transfer-learning10
motion-planning10
algorithms9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ropiens/project-sandwich-man
Aug 2021 - Feb 2022
A project for researching a complex and long-horizon manipulation task especially focused on hierarchically stacking blocks.
Contributions:1 release, 43 commits, 3 PRs in 5 months
hierarchical-reinforcement-learningmanipulationhorizonmeta-learningstacking
dion-jy/dion-jy
Jul 2020 - Feb 2026
Contributions:82 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
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