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Younghun Cho

Education

Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering

KAIST
2020 - 2024

M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering

KAIST
2018 - 2020

B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering

KAIST
2014 - 2018

Profile

I obtained a Ph.D. at IRiS Lab., KAIST advised by Prof. Jee-Hwan Ryu. I obtained an M.S.(2020) at IRAP Lab., KAIST (currently RPM Robotics Lab in SNU) advised by Prof. Ayoung Kim.

Experiences

Post Doctoral Researcher

2024 - current
Dept. of Industrial Machinery DX, Korea Institute of Machinery and Material (KIMM)

Next Generation Committee Member

2026 - current
Korea Foundation for Women In Science, Engineering and Technology (WISET)

Team Leader

2022
Autonomous Vehicle Challenge by Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy

I mainly took charge of the planning part and developed global, local, speed, and behavior planning, including vehicle and pedestrian avoidance. Also, I managed the whole team as a team leader.

Research Intern

2020 - 2021
NAVER LABS

I participated in coverage path planning research for LiDAR data acquisition.

Publications

The following are the papers I have participated in. They are sorted in time order.

  • SIO-Mapper: A framework for lane-level hd map construction using satellite images and openstreetmap with no on-site visits
    • Younghun Cho and Jee-Hwan Ryu
    ISPRS Open Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2026
  • STheReO: Stereo Thermal Dataset for Research in Odometry and Mapping
    • Seungsang Yun, Minwoo Jung, Jeongyun Kim, Sangwoo Jung, Younghun Cho, Myung-Hwan Jeon, Giseop Kim, and Ayoung Kim
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022
  • OpenStreetMap-based LiDAR Global Localization in Urban Environment without a Prior LiDAR Map
    • Younghun Cho, Giseop Kim, Sang-min Lee, and Jee-Hwan Ryu
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022 (with ICRA 2022)
  • RL-based Path Planning for SLAM Uncertainty Minimization in Urban Mapping
    • Younghun Cho and Ayoung Kim
    The Journal of Korea Robotics Society, 2021
  • Mulran: Multimodal range dataset for urban place recognition
    • Giseop Kim, Yeong Sang Park, Younghun Cho, Jinyong Jeong, and Ayoung Kim
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020
  • Path Pre-planning Optimizing SLAM Uncertainty using Reinforcement Learning
    • Advised by Prof. Ayoung Kim
    M.S. Thesis (Civil and Environmental Engineering, KAIST), 2020
  • The road is enough! Extrinsic calibration of non-overlapping stereo camera and LiDAR using road information
    • Jinyong Jeong, Younghun Cho, and Ayoung Kim
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2019

    Services

    Reviewers

  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L, 2022)
  • IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS, 2022)
  • IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR, 2022)
  • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA, 2021, 2023)

    • Teaching Assistants

  • CE481 (Sensor-based Spatial Intelligence), CEE, KAIST (2020)
  • CE554 (Mechanical Design of Civil Robot), CEE, KAIST (2018)
  • CE352 (Signal and System for Construction IT), CEE, KAIST (2017, 2019, 2021)

    • Others

  • Graduate School Student President, CEE, KAIST (2021 - 2022)

    • Skills & Proficiency

    Programming and Tools

  • ROS, C/C++, Python/PyTorch, MATLAB, QGIS, ...

    • Languages

  • Korean (Native), English (Fluent)