Taekyung Kim
PhD Candidate
Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolTaekyung Kim is a Robotics PhD candidate at the University of Michigan with eight years of engineering and research experience building autonomy for ground vehicles and industrial vision systems. His work spans model-based MPC, sim-to-real neural dynamics, and reinforcement-learning policies for exploration and off-road driving, developed using ROS/ROS2, PyTorch, C++, and Python. He has applied these skills in both defense and industry settings—designing UGV autonomy and EOD robots at the Agency for Defense Development and delivering deep-learning inspection software in commercial roles. Taekyung combines rigorous academic training (summa cum laude undergraduate) with hands-on deployment experience in IPG CarMaker and Nvidia Isaac, and he brings a practical focus on transferring learned models from simulation to real vehicles. Notably, his background includes rapid prototyping of cooperative urban driving stacks and multi-purpose autonomous platforms, reflecting a blend of systems-level thinking and low-level control expertise.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, BerkeleyPhD, Robotics, PhD, Robotics at University of MichiganBachelor's degree, College of Transdisciplinary Studies, 3.92/4.0, Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor's degree, College of Transdisciplinary Studies, 3.92/4.0, Summa Cum Laude at DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology)
Korean, English, Chinese
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Github Skills (43)
mpc10
lidar10
robotics9
simulation9
safety-critical9
pendulum9
robotics-simulation9
ros8
slam8
integral7
point-cloud7
motion-planning6
localization6
predictive6
robustness6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tkkim-robot/safe_control
Jul 2024 - Feb 2025
Safety-critical controllers for single/multi robotic navigation: CBF-QP, MPC-CBF, and etc.
Contributions:29 reviews, 22 PRs, 59 pushes in 7 months
cbfmpcnavigationobstacle-avoidanceqp
shinkansan/2019-UGRP-DPoom
Mar 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:142 commits, 38 pushes in 2 years
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