Ue-Hwan Kim

Associate Professor
Department of AI
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology

Education

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 2015 ~ 2020

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering

Thesis: Long-Term Episodic and Semantic Memories with Application to Home Service Robot-IoT

Advisor: Jong-Hwan Kim

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 2013 ~ 2015

M.S. in Electrical Engineering

Thesis: Advanced MR Venography Using Multi-Echo Technique

Advisor: Hyunwook Park

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 2009 ~ 2013

B.S. in Electrical Engineering

Advisor: Chulsoon Park

🙂 I also went to HAFS!

Selected Honors

• Fulbright Visiting Scholar Award, KAEC, Dec. 2024.
• Outstanding Teaching Award, GIST (3 recipients institution-wide), Nov. 2023.
• Best Research Achievement Award, KAIST EE, June 2020.
• Research Highlights of the Year (2020), KAIST, Feb. 2020

Academic Service

• Editorial Roles
  • Associate Editor, IEEE ICRA 2027
  • Associate Editor, IEEE RA-L 2026
  • Associate Editor, ICCAS 2026
  • Associate Editor, UR 2023, 2024, 2025
  • Editorial Board, ICROS 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
• Conference Organization
  • IEEE IV 2024 (Financial Chair)
  • KRoC 2023 (Publication Chair), 2024 (Publication Chair)
  • RiTA 2021 (Publicity Chair), 2023 (Publication Chair), 2026 (Program Chair)
  • ICCAS 2021 (Session Chair), 2026 (International Relation Chair)

Invited Talks

Spatial AI for Intelligent Agents

• Seminar at Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, Nov. 15, 2024.
• Seminar at ETRI, Sep. 19, 2024.
• Seminar at GIST-ETRI AI Workshop, Aug. 21, 2024.
• Seminar at The 2nd Korea-Japan Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Aug. 2, 2024.

3D Scene Understanding for Collaborative AI Bots

• Seminar at Korea Internet Conference (KRnet 2024), Jun. 25, 2024.
• Seminar at GIST-ETRI AI Workshop, Aug. 16, 2023.

Layout-Free Text-Entry Methods for a Metaverse

• Seminar at information Technology and Industry Prospects (iTIP 2022), Sep. 19, 2022.

Geometric and Semantic Image Understanding for Autonomous Vehicles

• Seminar at GIST-ETRI AI Workshop, Jul. 27, 2022.

AI for Intelligent Systems to Make Human Lives Better

• Seminar at Handong University, EECS, Oct. 18, 2023.
• Seminar at Hyundai Motors, Apr. 20, 2023.
• Seminar at Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies (HAFS), Dec. 14, 2022.
• Seminar at Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems (ICROS), Jun. 23, 2022.
• Seminar at Cho Chun Shik Graduate School of Green Transportation, KAIST, Mar. 3, 2022.
• Seminar at Gwangju and Jeonnam Federation, KOFST, Dec. 22, 2021.
• Seminar at Intelligent Image Processing Research Center, KETI, Nov. 26, 2021.

Contact

Email: uehwan@gist.ac.kr
Phone: 82-62-715-6384
Office: C11-407