Education
 

* Ph.D., Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, expected May 2004
   Thesis Topic: Mobile Robot Navigation and Localization
   Advisor: Nancy M. Amato

* M.S., Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering, Purdue University,
   West Lafayette, IN, August 1998

* B.S., Department of Aerospace Engineering, Inha University, Inchon, South Korea,
   February 1996

Honors, Scholarship

* Academic Excellence Scholarship, Korean Airline Company, 1995
* Honor Student, Inha University, 1994 and 1995

Professional Experience
 

* 2000 ~ present, Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science, Texas A&M

o Main topic: Mobile Robot Navigation and Localization.
o Work includes algorithm design, software development, and hardware experiments.
o Supervised four students developing Campus Navigator (web-based route planner).

* 1999, Research Assistant, Aerospace Engineering Department, Texas A&M University

o Main topic: Spacecraft Attitude Determination using GPS Carrier Wave.
o Part of International Space Station (ISS) Project.

* Mentoring Undergraduate Student Research Projects, Dept. of Computer Science, Texas A&M University

o 2000 ~ May 2003, Roger A. Pearce,
   Undergraduate Summer Research Program (USRG) and
   University Undergraduate Fellows Program (senior honor thesis)
o Rodrigo Perin (2001, USRG)
o Sandhu S. Bharatinder (2001 USRG and 2003)
o Nick Downing (2003, Undergraduate Directed Study)

Publications

* Peer Reviewed Conferences and Journals

Jinsuck Kim, Roger A. Pearce, Nancy M. Amato, "Feature-Based Localization using Scannable Visibility Sectors", Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '03), to appear

Jinsuck Kim, Roger A. Pearce, Nancy M. Amato, "Extracting Optimal Paths from Roadmaps for Motion Planning", Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '03), to appear

Jinsuck Kim, Roger A. Pearce, Nancy M. Amato, "Robust Geometric-Based Localization in Indoor Environments Using Sonar Sensors", Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS "02) vol 1, pp. 421-426.

Jinsuck Kim, Nancy Amato, Sooyong Lee, "An Integrated Mobile Robot Path (Re)Planner and Localizer for Personal Robots", Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'01), pp. 3789-3794.

Jinsuck Kim, Roger A. Pearce, Nancy Amato, Sooyong Lee, "An Integrated Mobile Robot Localizer and Navigator using Range Sensors and Geometric Features", Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

* Technical Reports

Jinsuck Kim, John L. Crassidis, Curtis Webb, "Autonomous Attitude Determination for ISS Application Using Pseudolite Signals", Project Report Submitted to National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, November 1999

* Thesis

Jinsuck Kim, "Underactuated Control of Two-Link Manipulator", M.S. Thesis, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University, 1998

Activities

* Professional

o Reviewer for Papers Submitted to ICRA 2002, ICRA 2003, IROS 2002, IROS 2003,
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation,
    and the International Journal of Robotics Research.
o Contributed to Development of AmigoBot Sonar Sensor Module for 'Player',
    a Robot Server/Client System Developed in USC Robotics Research Lab, 2002
o Displayed Graduate Research in BEST (Boosting Engineering, Science, and Technology)
    Competition, 2001 and 2002
o Programming Lecturer of Computer Club in Aerospace Engineering Department,
    Inha University, Korea, 1993~1995

* Korean Army Military Service, 1991~1992

References Available upon request