Summary
Seunghyeok Back is a senior researcher at KIMM with a Ph.D. in Robotics and eight years of experience focused on unseen-object robotic manipulation, spanning deep-learning-based segmentation, grasp planning, and placement of novel items. His work bridges academic rigor and industry practice, including a recent applied scientist internship in Amazon Robotics and a postdoctoral stint at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology. Based in Daejeon, South Korea, he leverages integrated mechanical and AI expertise to tackle real-world perception-to-action problems in automation. Notably, he combines hands-on systems development with research-grade experimentation, making deployments that generalize to objects the robot has never seen before.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Integrated Technology (Robotics Program), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Integrated Technology (Robotics Program) at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology