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12 13 <!-- to here. Thanks! %%%%%%% --> 14 15 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> 16 <title>Seungchan Kim</title> 17 18 <meta name="author" content="Seungchan Kim"> 19 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> 20 21 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css"> 22 23 24</head> 25<body> 26 <table style="width:100%;max-width:800px;border:0px;border-spacing:0px;border-collapse:separate;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;"><tbody> 27 <tr style="padding:0px"> 28 <td style="padding:0px"> 29 <table style="width:100%;border:0px;border-spacing:0px;border-collapse:separate;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;"><tbody> 30 <tr style="padding:0px"> 31 <td style="padding:2.5%;width:63%;vertical-align:middle"> 32 <p style="text-align:center"> 33 <name>Seungchan Kim</name> 34 </p> 35 <p style="text-align:center"> 36 <strong> email: </strong><em> [email protected] </em> 37 </p> 38 <p> 39 I am a Ph.D. candidate in the <a href="https://www.ri.cmu.edu/" target="_blank">Robotics Institute</a> at <a href="https://www.cmu.edu/" target="_blank">Carnegie Mellon University</a>, advised by <a href="https://www.ri.cmu.edu/ri-faculty/sebastian-scherer/" target="_blank">Sebastian Scherer</a>. My research focuses on spatial reasoning and semantic representations for autonomous mobile robot exploration and navigation. I was also a robotics research intern at <a href="https://www.fieldai.com/" target="_blank">Field AI</a>. 40 </p> 41 <p> 42 Previously, I earned a B.S. in Applied Mathematics & Computer Science and a M.S. in Computer Science from <a href="https://cs.brown.edu/" target="_blank">Brown University</a>, where I was advised by <a href="http://cs.brown.edu/people/gdk/" target="_blank">George Konidaris</a> and <a href="https://www.littmania.com/" target="_blank">Michael Littman</a>. At Brown, my research centered on deep reinforcement learning. 43 </p> 44 <p style="text-align:center"> 45 <a href="https://seungchan-kim.github.io/CV_Seungchan_Kim.pdf" target="_blank">CV</a>  /  46 <a href="https://publications.ri.cmu.edu/storage/publications/2026/08/Seungchan_Kim_PhD_Thesis_Dissertation_20260812145310.pdf" target="_blank">PhD Thesis</a>  /  47 <a href="https://github.com/seungchan-kim/" target="_blank">GitHub</a>  /  48 <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hcm1rYQAAAAJ&hl=en" target="_blank">Google Scholar</a>  /  49 <a href="https://x.com/seungchankim25" target="_blank">X</a>  /  50 <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/seungchankim25/" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>  /  51 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@seungchan-kim" target="_blank">YouTube</a> 52 </p> 53 </td> 54 <td style="padding:2.5%;width:40%;max-width:40%"> 55 <a href=""><img style="width:80%;max-width:100%" width="206" height="200" alt="profile photo" src="images/profile2025.png" class="hoverZoomLink"></a> 56 </td> 57 </tr> 58 </tbody></table> 59 <table style="width:100%;border:0px;border-spacing:0px;border-collapse:separate;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;"> 60 <tbody> 61 <tr> 62 <td style="padding:20px;width:100%;vertical-align:middle"> 63 <heading>News</heading> 64 <ul id="news-list" style="margin-bottom: 0; padding-left: 20px;"> 65 <li style="list-style-position:inside;margin:0;padding:0;text-align:left;">09/2026: Co-organizing <a href="https://www.ai-meets-autonomy.com/iros-workshop-2026" target="_blank">vision-language autonomy</a> and <a href="https://frostlab.byu.edu/IIG-workshop/" target="_blank">intelligent information gathering</a> workshops at IROS 2026</li> 66 <li style="list-style-position:inside;margin:0;padding:0;text-align:left;">06/2026: I successfully defended my PhD Thesis!</li> 67 <li style="list-style-position:inside;margin:0;padding:0;text-align:left;">
6704/2026: Visited UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, and Stanford for invited talks</li> 68 <li style="list-style-position:inside;margin:0;padding:0;text-align:left;">01/2026: A paper on outdoor semantic navigation, <a href="https://raven-semantic.github.io/" target="_blank">RAVEN</a>, was accepted to ICRA 2026. See you at Vienna! </li> 69 70 <div id="more-news" style="display:none;"> 71 <li style="list-style-position:inside;margin:0;padding:0;text-align:left;">09/2025: I started research internship at Field AI. </li> 72 <li style="list-style-position:inside;margin:0;padding:0;text-align:left;">06/2025: Two papers, <a href="https://rayfronts.github.io/" target="_blank">RayFronts</a> and <a href="https://pipe-planner.github.io/" target="_blank">PIPE Planner</a>, were accepted to IROS 2025.</li> 73 <li style="list-style-position:inside;margin:0;padding:0;text-align:left;">05/2025: Attended ICRA 2025 to present <a href="https://mapex-explorer.github.io" target="_blank">MapEx</a>. Also participated in ICRA 2025 Doctoral Consortium. </li> 74 <li style="list-style-position:inside;margin:0;padding:0;text-align:left;">12/2024: I passed my PhD Thesis Proposal! You can watch the recording of my presentation <a href="https://youtu.be/4u9M1TVYTpU?si=y-GSfZErHpkmMfuA" target="_blank">here</a>. </li> 75 <li style="list-style-position:inside;margin:0;padding:0;text-align:left;">05/2024: Attended ICRA 2024 and presented my work on <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.15202" target="_blank">multi-robot exploration</a>. </li> 76 <li style="list-style-position:inside;margin:0;padding:0;text-align:left;">12/2023: Survey on foundation models and robotics was released. Check out <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08782" target="_blank">here</a>! </li> 77 <li style="list-style-position:inside;margin:0;padding:0;text-align:left;">11/2023: Attended CoRL 2023. Here are the <a href="https://seungchan-kim.github.io/notes/CoRL_2023_Note.pdf" target="_blank">notes</a> on the sessions that I joined.</li> 78 <li style="list-style-position:inside;margin:0;padding:0;text-align:left;">07/2022: Two papers on few-shot object detection were accepted at ECCV 2022 and IROS 2022. </li> 79 <li style="list-style-position:inside;margin:0;padding:0;text-align:left;">09/2020: Started PhD in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University! </li> 80 </div> 81 </ul> 82
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100 101 </td> 102 </tr> 103 </tbody> 104 </table> 105 106 <table style="width:100%;border:0px;border-spacing:0px;border-collapse:separate;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;"> 107 <tbody> 108 <tr> 109 <td style="padding:20px;width:100%;vertical-align:middle"> 110 <heading>Invited Talks</heading> 111 112 <ul style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> 113 <li style="margin-bottom: 8px;"> 114 <strong>3D Representations for Robotics: Geometry, Efficiency, and Semantics</strong><br> 115 <span style="color: #444; padding-left: 10px; display: block;"> 116 Guest Lecture, CS479: Machine Learning for 3D Data @ KAIST <span style="color: #888;">(hosted by Minhyuk Sung, May 2026)</span><br> 117 </span> 118 </li> 119 <li style="margin-bottom: 8px;"> 120 <strong>Predictive Semantic World Models for Long-Horizon Mobile Robot Autonomy</strong><br> 121 <span style="color: #444; padding-left: 10px; display: block;"> 122 CogAI Group @ Stanford <span style="color: #888;">(hosted by Jiajun Wu, Apr 2026)</span><br> 123 </span> 124 </li> 125 <li style="margin-bottom: 8px;"> 126 <strong>Predictive Semantic Foresight for Mobile Robot Autonomy</strong><br> 127 <span style="color: #444; padding-left: 10px; display: block;"> 128 Kanazawa AI Research Lab @ UC Berkeley <span style="color: #888;">(hosted by Angjoo Kanazawa, Apr 2026)</span><br> 129 Co-PI Seminar on Optimization, Control, and Learning @ UCSD <span style="color: #888;">(hosted by Nikolay Atanasov, Apr 2026)</span><br> 130 Interactive and Trustworthy Robotics Lab @ CMU <span style="color: #888;">(hosted by Andrea Bajcsy, Apr 2026)</span> 131 </span> 132 </li> 133 <li style="margin-bottom: 8px;"> 134 <strong>Predictive Mapping and Semantic Reasoning for Autonomous Mobile Robots</strong><br> 135 <span style="color: #444; padding-left: 10px; display: block;"> 136 Scalable Spatial Intelligence Lab @ U Michigan <span style="color: #888;">(hosted by Yulun Tian, Mar 2026)</span><br> 137 Robot Learning Seminar @ U Buffalo / Georgia Tech / Penn State <span style="color: #888;">(hosted by Chen Wang, Mar 2026)</span> 138 </span> 139 </li> 140 141 <g id="more-talks" style="display:none;"> 142 <li style="margin-bottom: 8px;"> 143 <strong>Spatial Reasoning and Semantic Representations for Intelligent Multi-Robot Exploration and Navigation</strong><br> 144 <span style="color: #444; padding-left: 10px; display: block;"> 145 Artificial Intelligence for Robot Coordination at Scale Lab @ CMU <span style="color: #888;">(hosted by Jiaoyang Li, Jul 2025)</span><br> 146 Resilient Intelligent Systems Lab @ CMU <span style="color: #888;">(hosted by Wennie Tabib, Nov 2024)</span> 147 </span> 148 </li> 149 </g> 150 </ul> 151 152 <div style="margin-top: 4px; margin-left: 24px;"> 153 <a href="javascript:void(0)" id="talks-toggle-btn" onclick="toggleTalks()" style="text-decoration: none; font-size: 0.95em; color: #1772d0; font-weight: bold;">+ Show More</a> 154 </div> 155 156
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169 170 </td> 171 </tr> 172 </tbody> 173 </table> 174 175 176 <table style="width:100%;border:0px;border-spacing:0px;border-collapse:separate;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;"><tbody> 177 <tr> 178 <td style="padding:20px;width:100%;vertical-align:middle"> 179 <heading>Publications</heading> 180 </td> 181 </tr> 182 </tbody></table> 183 <table style="width:100%;border:0px;border-spacing:0px;border-collapse:separate;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;"><tbody> 184 <tr> 185 <td style="padding:20px;width:25%;vertical-align:middle"> 186 <img src="images/supermap.gif" alt="" width="160" style="border-style: none"> 187 </td> 188 <td width="75%" valign="middle"> 189 <a href="https://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss22/p052.pdf" id="" target="_blank"> 190 <papertitle>SuperMap: A Spatio-Temporal SLAM System for Visual-Language Navigation</papertitle> 191 </a> 192 <br> 193 <a href="https://shibowing.github.io/" target="_blank">Shibo Zhao</a>*, <a href="https://gfchen01.cc/" target="_blank">Guofei Chen</a>*, <a href="https://adrienzhh.github.io/honghao/" target="_blank">Honghao Zhu</a>, <a href="https://zl3466.github.io/" target="_blank">Zhiheng Li</a>, <a href="https://www.chad-yao.com/" target="_blank">Changwei Yao</a>, <a href="https://nzantout.github.io" target="_blank">Nader Zantout</a>, 194 <br> 195 <strong>Seungchan Kim</strong>, <a href="https://theairlab.org/team/wenshan/" target="_blank">Wenshan Wang</a>, <a href="https://frc.ri.cmu.edu/~zhangji/" target="_blank">Ji Zhang</a>, <a href="https://theairlab.org/team/sebastian/" target="_blank">Sebastian Scherer</a> 196 <br> 197 <em> Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2026</em> 198 <br> 199 <a href="https://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss22/p052.pdf" id="" target="_blank">paper</a> | 200 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.22896" target="_blank">arXiv</a> | 201 <a href="https://superodometry.com/supermap" target="_blank">project page</a> | 202 <a href="https://youtu.be/TQjTTqEewNQ?si=ItOG5bXvwsfbXIcT" id="" target="_blank">video</a> 203 </td> 204 </tr> 205 <tr> 206 <td style="padding:20px;width:25%;vertical-align:middle"> 207 <img src="images/proid.gif" alt="" width="160" style="border-style: none"> 208 </td> 209 <td width="75%" valign="middle"> 210 <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.10433" id="" target="_blank"> 211 <papertitle>PRoID: Predicted Rate of Information Delivery in Multi-Robot Exploration and Relaying</papertitle> 212 </a> 213 <br> 214 <strong>Seungchan Kim</strong>, <a href="https://seungjaebk.github.io/" target="_blank">Seungjae Baek</a>, <a href="https://www.micahcorah.com/" target="_blank">Micah Corah</a>, <a href="https://profiles.uts.edu.au/Graeme.Best" target="_blank">Graeme Best</a>, <a href="https://bradymoon.com/" target="_blank">Brady Moon</a>, <a href="https://theairlab.org/team/sebastian/" target="_blank">Sebastian Scherer</a> 215 <br> 216 <em> arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.10433 (2026). Under Review </em> 217 <br> 218 <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.10433" id="" target="_blank">paper</a> | 219 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.10433" target="_blank">arXiv</a> 220 </td> 221 </tr> 222 <tr> 223 <td style="padding:20px;width:25%;vertical-align:middle"> 224 <img src="images/radseg.png" alt="" width="160" style="border-style: none"> 225 </td> 226 <td width="75%" valign="middle"> 227 <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.19704" id="" target="_blank"> 228 <papertitle>RADSeg: Unleasing Parameter and Compute Efficient Zero-Shot Open-Vocabulary Segmentation Using Agglomerative Models</papertitle> 229 </a> 230 <br> 231 <a href="https://oasisartisan.github.io" target="_blank">Omar Alama</a>*, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/darshil-jariwala/" target="_blank">Darshil Jariwala</a>*, <a href="https://avigyanbh.github.io" target="_blank">Avigyan Bhattacharya</a>*, <strong>Seungchan Kim</strong>, <a href="https://theairlab.org/team/wenshan/" target="_blank">Wenshan Wang</a>, <a href="https://theairlab.org/team/sebastian/" target="_blank">Sebastian Scherer</a> 232 <br> 233 <em> IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026 Findings</em> 234 <br> 235 <em> CVPR 2026 Workshop on Open-World 3D Scene Understanding and Representations </em> 236 <br> 237 <a href="papers/2026cvprfindings-radseg.pdf" id="" target="_blank">paper</a> | 238 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19704" target="_blank">arXiv</a> | 239 <a href="http://radseg-ovss.github.io/" target="_blank">project page</a> | 240 <a href="https://github.com/RADSeg-OVSS/RADSeg" target="_blank">
240code</a> 241 </td> 242 </tr> 243 <tr> 244 <td style="padding:20px;width:25%;vertical-align:middle"> 245 <img src="images/raven-intro.gif" alt="" width="160" style="border-style: none"> 246 </td> 247 <td width="75%" valign="middle"> 248 <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.23563" id="" target="_blank"> 249 <papertitle>RAVEN: Resilient Aerial Navigation via Open-Set Semantic Memory and Behavior Adaptation</papertitle> 250 </a> 251 <br> 252 <strong>Seungchan Kim</strong>, <a href="https://oasisartisan.github.io" target="_blank">Omar Alama</a>, <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=91gM0vQAAAAJ" target="_blank">Dmytro Kurdydyk</a>, <a href="https://theairlab.org/team/johnk/" target="_blank">John Keller</a>, <a href="https://nik-v9.github.io/" target="_blank">Nikhil Keetha</a>, <a href="https://theairlab.org/team/wenshan/" target="_blank">Wenshan Wang</a>, <a href="https://yonatanbisk.com/" target="_blank">Yonatan Bisk</a>, <a href="https://theairlab.org/team/sebastian/" target="_blank">Sebastian Scherer</a> 253 <br> 254 <em> IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2026 </em> 255 <br> 256 <font color="red"><strong>(Oral Presentation, 8.3% of Accepted Papers)</strong></font> 257 <br> 258 <em> IROS 2025 Active Perception Workshop</em>, <font color="red"><strong>Best Paper Finalist (Spotlight Presentation)</strong></font> 259 <br> 260 <a href="papers/2026icra-raven.pdf" id="" target="_blank">paper</a> | 261 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23563" target="_blank">arXiv</a> | 262 <a href="https://raven-semantic.github.io/" target="_blank">project page</a> | 263 <a href="https://github.com/castacks/RAVEN" target="_blank">code</a> | 264 <a href="https://youtu.be/slLuZv3-zIs?si=ly2X8Tlyi3Qlqgp9" target="_blank">video</a> | 265 <a href="https://youtu.be/OL5CfAdYYcQ" target="_blank">presentation video</a> 266 </td> 267 </tr> 268 <tr> 269 <td style="padding:20px;width:25%;vertical-align:middle"> 270 <img src="images/mapexrl-thumbnail.png" alt="" width="160" style="border-style: none"> 271 </td> 272 <td width="75%" valign="middle"> 273 <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.01548" id="" target="_blank"> 274 <papertitle>MapExRL: Human-Inspired Indoor Exploration with Predicted Environment Context and Reinforcement Learning</papertitle> 275 </a> 276 <br> 277 <a href="https://narekharutyu.github.io/" target="_blank">Narek Harutyunyan</a>*, <a href="https://bradymoon.com/" target="_blank">Brady Moon</a>*, <strong>Seungchan Kim</strong>, <a href="https://cherieho.com/" target="_blank">Cherie Ho</a>, <a href="https://adamhung60.github.io/" target="_blank">Adam Hung</a>, <a href="https://theairlab.org/team/sebastian/" target="_blank">Sebastian Scherer</a> 278 <em> IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) 2025 </em> 279 <br> 280 <em> ICRA 2025 Workshop on Structured Learning for Efficient, Reliable, and Transparent Robots</em> 281 <br> 282 <a href="papers/2025icar-mapexrl.pdf" id="" target="_blank">paper</a> | 283 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01548" target="_blank">arXiv</a> | 284 <a href="https://mapexrl.github.io/" target="_blank">project page</a> | 285 <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11338661" target="_blank">DOI</a> | 286 <a href="https://youtu.be/aprE3y0vcpY" target="_blank">video</a> 287 </td> 288 </tr> 289 <tr> 290 <td style="padding:20px;width:25%;vertical-align:middle"> 291 <img src="images/rayfronts-teaser.gif" alt="" width="160" style="border-style: none"> 292 </td> 293 <td width="75%" valign="middle"> 294 <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.06994" id="" target="_blank"> 295 <papertitle>RayFronts: Open-Set Semantic Ray Frontiers for Online Scene Understanding and Exploration</papertitle> 296 </a> 297 <br> 298 <a href="https://oasisartisan.github.io" target="_blank">Omar Alama</a>, <a href="https://avigyanbh.github.io" target="_blank">Avigyan Bhattacharya</a>, <a href="https://purenothingness24.github.io/" target="_blank">Haoyang He</a>, <strong>Seungchan Kim</strong>, <a href="https://haleqiu.github.io/" target="_blank">Yuheng Qiu</a>, <a href="https://theairlab.org/team/wenshan/" target="_blank">Wenshan Wang</a>, <a href="https://cherieho.com/" target="_blank">Cherie Ho</a>, <a href="https://nik-v9.github.io/" target="_blank">Nikhil Keetha</a>, <a href="https://theairlab.org/team/sebastian/" target="_blank">Sebastian Scherer</a> 299 <br> 300 <em> IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (I
300ROS) 2025 </em> 301 <br> 302 <em> RSS 2025 Workshop on Semantic Reasoning and Goal Understanding in Robotics</em> 303 <br> 304 <em> RSS 2025 Workshop on Learned Robot Representations </em> 305 <br> 306 <a href="papers/2025iros-rayfronts.pdf" id="" target="_blank">paper</a> | 307 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06994" target="_blank">arXiv</a> | 308 <a href="https://rayfronts.github.io/" target="_blank">project page</a> | 309 <a href="https://github.com/RayFronts/RayFronts" target="_blank">code</a> | 310 <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11245813" target="_blank">DOI</a> | 311 <a href="https://youtu.be/fFSKUBHx5gA?si=yPHBV7LxLirVjtYg" target="_blank">video</a> 312 </td> 313 </tr> 314 <tr> 315 <td style="padding:20px;width:25%;vertical-align:middle"> 316 <img src="images/PIPE_animation.gif" alt="" width="160" style="border-style: none"> 317 </td> 318 <td width="75%" valign="middle"> 319 <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.07504" id="" target="_blank"> 320 <papertitle>PIPE Planner: Pathwise Information Gain with Map Predictions for Indoor Robot Exploration</papertitle> 321 </a> 322 <br> 323 <a href="https://seungjaebk.github.io/" target="_blank">Seungjae Baek</a>*, <a href="https://bradymoon.com/" target="_blank">Brady Moon</a>*, <strong>Seungchan Kim</strong>*, <a href="https://caomuqing.github.io/" target="_blank">Muqing Cao</a>, <a href="https://cherieho.com/" target="_blank">Cherie Ho</a>, <a href="https://theairlab.org/team/sebastian/" target="_blank">Sebastian Scherer</a>, <a href="https://rml-unist.notion.site/" target="_blank">Jeong hwan Jeon</a> 324 <br> 325 (*: Equal Contributions) 326 <br> 327 <em> IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2025 </em> 328 <br> 329 <a href="papers/2025iros-pipe.pdf" id="" target="_blank">paper</a> | 330 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.07504" target="_blank">arXiv</a> | 331 <a href="https://pipe-planner.github.io/" target="_blank">project page</a> | 332 <a href="https://github.com/castacks/pipe-planner" target="_blank">code</a> | 333 <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11246190" target="_blank">DOI</a> | 334 <a href="https://youtu.be/oZEqbCBRn-I" target="_blank">video</a> 335 </td> 336 </tr> 337 <tr> 338 <td style="padding:20px;width:25%;vertical-align:middle"> 339 <img src="images/mapex-v2.gif" alt="" width="160" style="border-style: none"> 340 </td> 341 <td width="75%" valign="middle"> 342 <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.15590" id="" target="_blank"> 343 <papertitle>MapEx: Indoor Structure Exploration with Probabilistic Information Gain from Global Map Predictions</papertitle> 344 </a> 345 <br> 346 <a href="https://cherieho.com/" target="_blank">Cherie Ho</a>*, <strong>Seungchan Kim</strong>*, <a href="https://bradymoon.com/" target="_blank">Brady Moon</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/aditya-parandekar-ab9aa0218/" target="_blank">Aditya Parandekar</a>, <a href="https://narekharutyu.github.io/" target="_blank">Narek Harutyunyan</a>, <a href="https://sairlab.org/chenw" target="_blank">Chen Wang</a>, <a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sycara/" target="_blank">Katia Sycara</a>, <a href="https://profiles.uts.edu.au/Graeme.Best" target="_blank">Graeme Best</a>, <a href="https://theairlab.org/team/sebastian/" target="_blank">Sebastian Scherer</a> 347 <br> 348 (*: Equal Contributions) 349 <br> 350 <em> IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025 </em> 351 <br> 352 <a href="papers/2025icra-mapex.pdf" id="" target="_blank">paper</a> | 353 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.15590" target="_blank">arXiv</a> | 354 <a href="https://mapex-explorer.github.io" target="_blank">project page</a> | 355 <a href="https://github.com/castacks/MapEx" target="_blank">
355code</a> | 356 <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11128862/" target="_blank">DOI</a> | 357 <a href="https://youtu.be/awvBnLQi3zg?si=CRmQqOR7HFvTLzQN" target="_blank">video</a> | 358 <a href="https://youtu.be/s2f8nCrVZAk" target="_blank">presentation video</a> 359 </td> 360 </tr> 361 <tr> 362 <td style="padding:20px;width:25%;vertical-align:middle"> 363 <img src="images/fm-rob-survey.png" alt="" width="160" style="border-style: none"> 364 </td> 365 <td width="75%" valign="middle"> 366 <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.08782.pdf" id="" target="_blank"> 367 <papertitle>Toward General-Purpose Robots via Foundation Models: A Survey and Meta-Analysis</papertitle> 368 </a> 369 <br> 370 <a href="https://jeffreyyh.github.io/" target="_blank">Yafei Hu</a>*, <a href="https://quantingxie.github.io/" target="_blank">Quanting Xie</a>*, <a href="https://vidhijain.github.io/" target="_blank">Vidhi Jain</a>*, <a href="https://jonfranc.com/" target="_blank">Jonathan Francis</a>, <a href="https://www.jaypatrikar.me/" target="_blank">Jay Patrikar</a>, <a href="https://nik-v9.github.io/" target="_blank">Nikhil Keetha</a>, <strong>Seungchan Kim</strong>, <a href="https://yaqi-xie.me/" target="_blank">Yaqi Xie</a>, <a href="https://tyz1030.github.io/" target="_blank">Tianyi Zhang</a>, <a href="https://fang-haoshu.github.io/" target="_blank">Hao-Shu Fang</a>, <a href="https://shibowing.github.io/" target="_blank">Shibo Zhao</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/shayegan/" target="_blank">Shayegan Omidshafiei</a>, <a href="https://dkkim93.github.io/" target="_blank">Dong-Ki Kim</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-agha-7aa5212a/" target="_blank">Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi</a>, <a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sycara/" target="_blank">Katia Sycara</a>, <a href="https://droplab.ri.cmu.edu/" target="_blank">Matthew Johnson-Roberson</a>, <a href="https://faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~dbatra/" target="_blank">Dhruv Batra</a>, <a href="https://xiaolonw.github.io/" target="_blank">Xiaolong Wang</a>, <a href="https://theairlab.org/team/sebastian/" target="_blank">Sebastian Scherer</a>, <a href="https://sairlab.org/chenw" target="_blank">Chen Wang</a>, <a href="https://faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~zk15/" target="_blank">Zsolt Kira</a>, <a href="https://fxia22.github.io/" target="_blank">Fei Xia</a>, <a href="https://yonatanbisk.com/" target="_blank">Yonatan Bisk</a> 371 <br> 372 <em> arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.08782 (2023). </em> 373 <br> 374 <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.08782.pdf" id="" target="_blank">paper</a> | 375 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08782" target="_blank">arXiv</a> | 376 <a href="https://robotics-fm-survey.github.io/" target="_blank">project page</a> 377 </td> 378 </tr> 379 <tr> 380 <td style="padding:20px;width:25%;vertical-align:middle"> 381 <img src="images/mrmr.gif" alt="" width="160" style="border-style: none"> 382 </td> 383 <td width="75%" valign="middle"> 384 <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.15202.pdf" id="" target="_blank"> 385 <papertitle>Multi-Robot Multi-Room Exploration with Geometric Cue Extraction and Circular Decomposition</papertitle> 386 </a> 387 <br> 388 <strong>Seungchan Kim</strong>, <a href="https://www.micahcorah.com/" target="_blank">Micah Corah</a>, <a href="https://theairlab.org/team/johnk/" target="_blank">John Keller</a>, <a href="https://profiles.uts.edu.au/Graeme.Best" target="_blank">Graeme Best</a>, <a href="https://theairlab.org/team/sebastian/" target="_blank">Sebastian Scherer</a> 389 <br> 390 <em> IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2023 </em> 391 <br> 392 <em>Presentation at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024</em> 393 <br> 394 <a href="papers/2023ral-mrmr.pdf" id="" target="_blank">paper</a> | 395 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15202" target="_blank">arXiv</a> | 396 <a href="https://seungchan-kim.github.io/multi-robot-multi-room" target="_blank">project page</a> | 397 <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10356832" target="_blank">DOI</a> | 398 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUtK1hh2Tpo" target="_blank">video</a> | 399 <a href="https://youtu.be/DFoL3MGQwbE?si=zFEQKhjwbX2hU8Y_" target="_blank">presentation video</a> 400 </td> 401 </tr> 402 403 <tr> 404 <td style="padding:20px;width:25%;vertical-align:middle"> 405 <img src="images/airdet.png" alt="" width="160" style="border-style: none"> 406 </td> 407 <td width="75%" valign="middle"> 408 <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.01740.pdf" id="" target="_blank"> 409 <papertitle>AirDet: Few-Shot Detection without Fine-tuning for Autonomous Exploration</papertitle> 410 </a> 411 <br> 412 <a href="https://jaraxxus-me.github.io/" target="_blank">Bowen Li</a>, <a href="https://sairlab.org/chenw" target="_blank">Chen Wang</a>, <a href="https://pranay-ar.github.io/" target="_blank">Pranay Reddy</a>, <strong>Seungchan Kim</strong>, <a href="https://theairlab.org/team/sebastian/" target="_blank">Sebastian Scherer</a> 413 <br> 414 <em> European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2022 </em> 415 <br> 416 <a href="papers/2022eccv-airdet.pdf" id="" target="_blank">paper</a> | 417 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.01740" target="_blank">arXiv</a> | 418 <a href="https://jaraxxus-me.github.io/ECCV2022_AirDet/" target="_blank">project page</a> | 419 <a href="https://github.com/Jaraxxus-Me/AirDet" target="_blank">
419code</a> | 420 <a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-19842-7_25">DOI</a> 421 </td> 422 </tr> 423 424 <tr> 425 <td style="padding:20px;width:25%;vertical-align:middle"> 426 <img src="images/airinteraction.png" alt="" width="160" style="border-style: none"> 427 </td> 428 <td width="75%" valign="middle"> 429 <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9981461" id="" target="_blank"> 430 <papertitle>Robotic Interestingness via Human-Informed Few-Shot Object Detection</papertitle> 431 </a> 432 <br> 433 <strong>Seungchan Kim</strong>, <a href="https://sairlab.org/chenw" target="_blank">Chen Wang</a>, <a href="https://jaraxxus-me.github.io/" target="_blank">Bowen Li</a>, <a href="https://theairlab.org/team/sebastian/" target="_blank">Sebastian Scherer</a> 434 <br> 435 <em> IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2022 </em> 436 <br> 437 <a href="papers/2022iros-interestingness.pdf" target="_blank">paper</a> | <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.01084" target="_blank"> arXiv </a> | <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9981461" target="_blank"> DOI </a> | <a href="https://youtu.be/-GugFxs6ubg?si=6ZnIj1ibFnmeqjjO" target="_blank">video</a> 438 </td> 439 </tr> 440 441 <tr> 442 <td style="padding:20px;width:25%;vertical-align:middle"> 443 <img src="images/online-learning.png" alt="" width="160" style="border-style: none"> 444 </td> 445 <td width="75%" valign="middle"> 446 <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.09793.pdf" id="" target="_blank"> 447 <papertitle>Unsupervised Online Learning for Robotic Interestingness with Visual Memory</papertitle> 448 </a> 449 <br> 450 <a href="https://sairlab.org/chenw" target="_blank">Chen Wang</a>, <a href="https://haleqiu.github.io/" target="_blank">Yuheng Qiu</a>, <a href="https://theairlab.org/team/wenshan/" target="_blank">Wenshan Wang</a>, <a href="https://jeffreyyh.github.io/" target="_blank">Yafei Hu</a>, <strong>Seungchan Kim</strong>, <a href="https://theairlab.org/team/sebastian/" target="_blank">Sebastian Scherer</a> 451 <br> 452 <em> IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO) 2021 </em> 453 <br> 454 <a href="papers/2021tro-unsupervised.pdf" id="" target="_blank">paper</a> | <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.09793" target="_blank"> arXiv </a> | <a href="https://sairlab.org/interestingness/" target="_blank"> project page </a> | <a href="https://github.com/sair-lab/interestingness" target="_blank"> code </a> | <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9653144">DOI</a> 455 </td> 456 </tr> 457 458 <tr> 459 <td style="padding:20px;width:25%;vertical-align:middle"> 460 <img src="images/playroom.png" alt="" width="160" style="border-style: none"> 461 </td> 462 <td width="75%" valign="middle"> 463 <a href="https://psyarxiv.com/gq4rt/" id="" target="_blank"> 464 <papertitle>Using Computational Analysis of Behavior to Discover Developmental Change in Memory-Guided Attention Mechanisms in Childhood</papertitle> 465 </a> 466 <br> 467 <a href="https://psychology.columbia.edu/content/dima-amso" target="_blank">Dima Amso</a>, Lakshmi Govindarajan, Pankaj Gupta, Diego Placido, Heidi Baumgartner, Andrew Lynn, Kelley Gunther, Tarun Sharma, Vijay Veerabadran, Kalpit Thakkar, <strong>Seungchan Kim</strong>, <a href="https://serre-lab.clps.brown.edu/person/thomas-serre/" target="_blank">Thomas Serre</a> 468 <br> 469 <em> PsyArXiv. doi:10.31234/osf.io/gq4rt </em> 470 <br> 471 <a href="https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/gq4rt" target="_blank">DOI</a> 472 </td> 473 </tr> 474 475 <tr> 476 <td style="padding:20px;width:25%;vertical-align:middle"> 477 <img src="images/multi-step.png" alt="" width="160" style="border-style: none"> 478 </td> 479 <td width="75%" valign="middle"> 480 <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.13320.pdf" id="" target="_blank"> 481 <papertitle>Combating the Compounding-Error Problem with a Multi-step Model</papertitle> 482 </a> 483 <br> 484 <a href="https://cs.brown.edu/people/kasadiat/" target="_blank">Kavosh Asadi</a>, <a href="https://dipendramisra.com/" target="_blank">Dipendra Misra</a>, <strong>Seungchan Kim</strong>, <a href="https://www.littmania.com/" target="_blank">Michael Littman</a> 485 <br> 486 <em> arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.13320 (2019). </em> 487 <br> 488 <a href="papers/2019arxiv-compoundingerror.pdf" id="" target="_blank">paper</a> | <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.13320" target="_blank"> arXiv </a> 489 </td> 490 </tr> 491 492 <tr> 493 <td style="padding:20px;width:25%;vertical-align:middle"> 494 <img src="images/seaquest.png" alt="" width="160" style="border-style: none"> 495 </td> 496 <td width="75%" valign="middle"> 497 <a href="https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/2019/0379.pdf" id="" target="_blank"> 498 <papertitle>DeepMellow: Removing the Need for a Target Network in Deep Q-Learning</papertitle> 499 </a> 500 <br> 501 <strong>Seungchan Kim</strong>, <a href="https://cs.brown.edu/people/kasadiat/" target="_blank">Kavosh Asadi</a>, <a href="https://www.littmania.com/" target="_blank">Michael Littman</a>, <a href="http://cs.brown.edu/people/gdk/" target="_blank">George Konidaris</a> 502 <br> 503 <em> International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2019</em> 504 <br> 505 <em> Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM) 2019</em> 506 <br> 507 <a href="papers/2019ijcai-deepmellow.pdf" target="_blank">paper</a> | <a href="https://github.com/seungchan-kim/DeepMellow" target="_blank">
507code</a> | <a href="https://par.nsf.gov/biblio/10180061">DOI</a> 508 </td> 509 </tr> 510 511 <tr> 512 <td style="padding:20px;width:25%;vertical-align:middle"> 513 <img src="images/mellowmax.png" alt="" width="160" style="border-style: none"> 514 </td> 515 <td width="75%" valign="middle"> 516 <a href="http://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2019/pdfs/p2060.pdf" id="" target="_blank"> 517 <papertitle>Removing the Target Network from Deep Q-Networks with the Mellowmax Operator</papertitle> 518 </a> 519 <br> 520 <strong>Seungchan Kim</strong>, <a href="https://cs.brown.edu/people/kasadiat/" target="_blank">Kavosh Asadi</a>, <a href="https://www.littmania.com/" target="_blank">Michael Littman</a>, <a href="http://cs.brown.edu/people/gdk/" target="_blank">George Konidaris</a> 521 <br> 522 <em> International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2019</em>, <strong>Extended Abstract</strong> 523 <br> 524 <a href="papers/2019aamas-mellowmaxdqn.pdf" id="" target="_blank">paper</a> 525 </td> 526 </tr> 527 528 <table width="100%" align="center" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20"><tbody> 529 <tr> 530 <td style="padding-bottom: 5px;"> 531 <heading>Teaching</heading> 532 </td> 533 </tr> 534 </tbody></table> 535 <table width="100%" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="20"><tbody> 536 <tr> 537 <td width="100%" valign="center" style="padding-top: 8px;"> 538 <strong>Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute</strong> 539 <br> 540 <a href="" target="_blank">16-711 Kinematics, Dynamics, Control</a>, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2023 541 <br> 542 <a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kaess/teaching/16833/Spring2021/" target="_blank">16-833 Robot Localization and Mapping</a>, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2022 543 <br><br> 544 <strong>Brown University</strong> 545 <br> 546 <a href="https://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci1430/2019_Spring/index.html" target="_blank">CSCI1430 Computer Vision</a>, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2019 547 <br> 548 <a href="http://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci0040/" target="_blank">CSCI0040 Intro to Scientific Computing and Problem Solving</a>, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2015 549 </td> 550 </tr> 551 </tbody></table> 552 553 554 <table width="100%" align="center" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20"><tbody> 555 <tr> 556 <td style="padding-bottom: 5px;"> 557 <heading>Service & Outreach</heading> 558 </td> 559 </tr> 560 </tbody></table> 561 <table width="100%" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="20"><tbody> 562 <tr> 563 <td width="75%" valign="center" style="padding-top: 8px;"> 564 <strong>Associate Editor:</strong> ICRA 565 <br> 566 <strong>Organizer:</strong> 567 <ul style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> 568 <li><a href="https://www.ai-meets-autonomy.com/iros-workshop-2026" target="_blank">IROS 2026 Workshop on AI Meets Autonomy: Vision, Language, and Autonomous Systems</a></li> 569 <li><a href="https://frostlab.byu.edu/IIG-workshop/" target="_blank">IROS 2026 Workshop and Competition on Intelligent Information Gathering for Single and Multi-Robot Systems</a></li> 570 <li><a href="https://theairlab.org/tartanplanningseries/" target="_blank">Tartan Planning Series Spring 2023</a></li> 571 </ul> 572 <strong>Journal Reviewer:</strong> IJRR, T-RO, T-ASE, RA-L 573 <br> 574 <strong>Conference Reviewer:</strong> ICRA, IROS, CoRL, CASE, MRS, ICAR, ICLR, NeurIPS, AAAI, ICML 575 <br> 576 </td> 577 </tr> 578 </tbody></table> 579 580 <table style="width:100%;border:0px;border-spacing:0px;border-collapse:separate;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;"><tbody> 581 <tr> 582 <td style="padding:0px"> 583 <br> 584 <p style="text-align:right;font-size:small;"> 585 <a href="https://github.com/jonbarron/jonbarron_website" target="_blank"> Website Template</a> 586 </p> 587 </td> 588 </tr> 589 </tbody></table> 590 591</body> 592 593</html>
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