Biography

Giseop Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at DGIST, where he leads the Autonomy and Perceptual Robotics Lab (APRL). He also holds joint appointments in the Department of Artificial Intelligence and the Mechanical Engineering Track at DGIST.

Before joining DGIST, he was a Research Scientist at NAVER LABS (2021-2024), working on autonomous driving and 3D vision. He received his PhD, MS, and BS from KAIST, all in Civil and Environmental Engineering, under the guidance of Prof. Ayoung Kim.

His research focuses on enabling robots to perceive and navigate the real world robustly and efficiently through SLAM, 3D reconstruction, sensor fusion, and spatial AI.

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