Obin Kwon
Sr. Robotics Machine Learning Engineer at Tesla
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolObin Kwon is a Sr. Robotics Machine Learning Engineer with 8 years of experience translating visual data into actionable robot policies, currently driving robotics ML at Tesla after a postdoc at UIUC. He earned a PhD from Seoul National University where he developed novel scene representations and memory mechanisms enabling goal-oriented navigation and language-conditioned instruction following. Obin’s work spans extracting rich visual features, efficient robot-centric memory/SLAM representations, and policy design via reinforcement and imitation learning, with industry experience building vision-based localization systems at Sequor Robotics and NAVER LABS. Comfortable moving ideas from papers to production, he has repeatedly led projects that bridge academic novelty and practical localization needs for real robots. Based in Palo Alto, he combines deep research rigor with hands-on deployment experience, often optimizing representations for downstream control rather than only perception metric gains.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University고양외국어고등학교
Github Skills (19)
imitation-learning10
pytorch10
graph10
reinforcement-learning10
simulator9
robotics9
neural-rendering9
computer-vision8
deep-reinforcement-learning8
python8
slam8
ai7
deep-learning7
localization6
ai-agent6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rllab-snu/Visual-Graph-Memory
Oct 2021 - Apr 2022
Official GitHub Repository for paper "Visual Graph Memory with Unsupervised Representation for Visual Navigation", ICCV 2021
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 6 months
graphpytorchvisual-navigationhabitat-simimage-goal-navigation
rllab-snu/rllab-snu.github.io
Aug 2021 - Apr 2024
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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