Summary
Shin Ukcheol is an Assistant Professor at KENTECH and a robotics and 3D vision researcher with 10 years of experience bridging academia and applied AI, most recently as a postdoc at CMU’s Robotics Institute. His work focuses on robust physical AI—spatial and semantic perception in extreme conditions—leveraging self-supervised learning, multi-sensor fusion, and deep reinforcement learning for navigation and manipulation. A KAIST-trained PhD, he has earned multiple recognitions including WACV Best Student Paper and top awards at CVPR WAD and ICRA TIRO workshops, and he co-organized major ICCV/ICRA workshops on thermal and multi-spectral imaging. Shin combines strong theoretical grounding with practical robot-sensor systems (legged robots, humanoids, cameras) and a knack for making perception work in rain, snow, low light and other challenging environments.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Seoul National University of Science and Technology
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology