Summary
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)
Korean, English