Jinsuck Kim

College Station, TX 77840
Home: (979) 680-1923   Office: (979) 847-8835
e-mail: jinsuckk@cs.tamu.edu
http://parasol.tamu.edu/people/jinsuckk

Summary of Qualifications 

 * Strong engineering background (aerospace, mechanics, and robotics)
 * Strong computer background (algorithm design and implementation)
 * Problem solving ability for physical problems using theoretical and practical approaches

Education  

 * Ph.D., Department of Computer Science,  Texas A&M University,  College Station, TX, 
          expected May 2004 (Expected to defend in Dec 2003~Feb 2004) 
          Topic: Mobile Robots,   GPA:3.69/4.0
 * M.S.,  Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering,  Purdue University, 
          West Lafayette, IN,  August 1998,    Topic: Robotic Manipulator,   GPA:3.67/4.0
 * B.S.,  Aerospace Engineering Dept., Inha University, Inchon, Korea, Feb 1996, GPA: 3.53/4.0

Professional Experience

 * 2000 ~ present, Research Assistant,  Computer Science Dept., Texas A&M
   o Topic: mobile robot navigation and localization
   o Main work: algorithm design, software development, and hardware experiments
   o Secondary work: supervising group project (web-based route planner)

 * 1999, Research Assistant,  Aerospace Engineering Dept., Texas A&M
   o Main topic: Spacecraft Attitude Determination using GPS Carrier Wave
   o Work: Implementing state estimator using Matlab
   o Part of International Space Station Project by NASA

 * Mentoring Four Undergraduate Student Research Projects
   2000 ~ 2003, Undergraduate Summer Research Program (USRG) and 
   University Undergraduate Fellows Program (senior honor thesis)

 * Participated in reviewing  papers submitted to ICRA 2002/2003, IROS 2002/2003, TRA

Publications
 * Three papers in ICRA (Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation)
 * One paper in IROS (Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems)
 * One paper submitted to TRA (IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation)
 * M.S. Thesis "Underactuated Control of Two-Link Manipulator"

Computer Skills
 * Operating systems : MS-DOS^, Windows^, Linux^, Solaris, IRIX
 * Programming Languages: C/C++^, Assembly (Motorola 6502, Intel x86)
 * Computational Tools: MatLab^, Mathematica^, LEDA^, CGAL
 * Hardware Interface: MatLab Realtime Workshop, SAPHIRA 
 * Graphics: OpenGL, Microsoft Windows SDK, 3D Studio, QT
 * Web/IT: PHP, MySQL
   (^Several years¡¯ experience / others: less than one year)

References: available upon request