Education

• Mar. 2023 – Present

  PhD Candidate in Aerospace Engineering

  Lab for Autonomous Robotics Research, SNU

  Seoul, South Korea

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• Mar. 2016 – Oct. 2020

  Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering

  Seoul National University

  Seoul, South Korea

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Experiences

• Oct. 2020 – Apr. 2022

  Mandatory Military Service

  Fulfilled mandatory military service.

  Republic of Korea Army

  South Korea

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• Feb. 2020 – June 2020

  Research Intern

  Developed a simulation for a neuromorphic computing device.

  Energy Device and Nano-Engineering Lab., SNU

  Seoul, South Korea

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• May 2019 – Feb. 2020

  Research Associate

  Developed a machine vision system for deformable objects using OpenCV and an Intel RealSense RGBD sensor.

  Undergraduate Research Program, X-corps, SNU

  Seoul, South Korea

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• Mar. 2018 – July 2018

  Research Associate

  Analyzed rear spoiler aerodynamics using SolidWorks and ANSYS FLUENT.

  Undergraduate Independent Research, SNU

  Seoul, South Korea

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• Nov. 2016 – Mar. 2017

  Research Intern

  Developed a stepper motor acceleration profile generator using an STM32 microcontroller.

  Extreme Environment Robotics Lab., AICT

  Suwon, South Korea

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• Fall 2016

  Team Leader

  Led a team to win the 'Creative Design Award' at RoboCon 2016 using integrated pneumatic and motor systems.

  Creative Engineering Design Competition, SNU

  Seoul, South Korea

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Recent Papers

• Distilling Privileged Control Barrier Functions into RGB-Only Safety Filters for Dynamic Visual Navigation

  Authors: Seungyeon Yoo¹, Gawon Lee¹, Seungwoo Jung¹, Inkyu Jang, H. Jin Kim*

  Submitted to IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) • 2026

• FLAG: Flow Policy MaxEnt-RL by Latent Augmented Guidance

  Authors: Sungha Kim¹, Gawon Lee¹, Jusuk Lee, Jonghae Park, H. Jin Kim, Daesol Cho*

  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) • 2026

• Leveraging Temporally Extended Behavior Sharing for Multi-task Reinforcement Learning

  Authors: Gawon Lee, Daesol Cho, H. Jin Kim*

  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) • 2025

Skills