Kiru Park is a robotics and perception leader with 11 years of experience, currently serving as Corporate VP leading Samsung’s manufacturing robot team after driving vision and manipulation advances at Amazon Robotics. With a PhD from TU Wien and prior roles building 6D pose estimation and grasping systems, he blends deep academic expertise in CNN-based robot vision with hands-on productization of warehouse automation. His background spans automotive HMI ergonomics at Hyundai to applied research in Europe and industry-scale deployment in the cloud-connected fulfillment domain, giving him a rare cross-disciplinary view of human, machine, and system-level interaction. Known for turning advanced perception algorithms into robust manipulation solutions, he focuses on closing the gap between lab performance and real-world operational reliability.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of Technology
Exchange Year, Exchange Year at Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
Master of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering at 한국과학기술원(KAIST)
Original implementation of the paper "Pix2Pose: Pixel-Wise Coordinate Regression of Objects for 6D Pose Estimation", in ICCV 2019, https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.07433
Contributions:79 commits, 2 PRs, 39 pushes in 11 months
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