Team Leader

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.

Research Interests

  • Spatial AI & Physical AI
  • Mobile Robot Navigation
  • Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)

Education

  • PhD in Civil & Env. Eng., 2022, KAIST
  • MS in Civil & Env. Eng., 2019, KAIST
  • BS in Civil & Env. Eng., 2017, KAIST

Current Lab Members

Full-time Researchers

Yumin Lee

Yumin Lee

MS student (2025F-)

Beomsu Kim

Beomsu Kim

MS student (2026S-)

Hoyun Kim

Hoyun Kim

MS student (2026S-)

Incoming student

Incoming Student

MS student (2026F-)

Incoming student

Incoming Student

MS student (2027S-)

Undergraduate Interns

2026 Summer Mingyu Lee (DGIST, Topic: VLM for Multi-robot Exploration), Hyunwoo Kim (DGIST, Topic: Heterogeneous Multi-robot Collaboration), Minseok Oh (Inha University, Topic: Monocular Dense Mapping), Ayun Lee (DGIST, Topic: Point-to-Language Grounded Navigation)

2026 Spring Ayun Lee (DGIST, Topic: VLN for Exploration), Hyunwoo Kim (DGIST, Topic: Image Matching)

2026 Winter Hyeonwoo Jeong (DGIST), Yewon Kim (DGIST), Ayun Lee (DGIST) (Topics: DGIST 4D Mapping and Intelligent Robot Exploration)

Research Collaborators

Listed alphabetically by collaborator name.