Sewon Kim

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Embodied System, Optimal Control, and Robot Learning.

This is Sewon Kim. I'm an undergraduate student in electrical and computer engineering based at the Unitversity of Seoul. I've been focusing on optimal control and robot learning. I enjoy bringing sophisticated theories into the real world but strive to maintain a sense of balance between theory and implementation.

By the way, I'm 24 years old and originally from Seoul, South Korea 🇰🇷. I have a passion for jazz and heavy metal, and I spent many years playing acoustic and electric guitar in rock bands 🎸.

Projects

[08/25/2025-09/25/2025] Self-Driving Air Purifing Agent

🏆 4th Place (200 teams) — SK NAMUH X A1: Autonomous Driving Path Optimization ($2,200)
Finite State Machine Mission Planning Global Planning Local Planning Monte Carlo Localization Traveling Salesman Problem Model Predictive Path Integral Control PID

[03/01/2024-12/19/2024] F1tenth Autonomous Racing

5th Place (12 teams) — 22nd F1tenth Autonomous Grand Prix at the Conference on Decision and Control 2024, Milan

F1Tenth refers to a 1/10-scale car of a real Formula 1 vehicle, which aims to achieve high-speed and collision-free autonomous driving. We built a full-stack autonomous navigation system for racing completely from scratch, and I led the project with two undergraduate students.

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SLAM Monte Carlo Localization Race Line Optimization Model Predictive Path Integral Control

[07/25/2024–09/27/2024] Cart Pole System Design and Control with NMPC and PID

🏆 3rd Place (/25) ($220) (People’s Choice Award) — UOS ECE Innovation Fair

I built a physical Cart-Pole system, a classical control problem, for just 272 USD and applied nonlinear model predictive control. I independently developed 3D modeling, sensor integration, motor control, state estimation, embeded, and MPC.

Project Page | Code | LinkedIn Post (600+ likes)
Model Predictive Control PID Hardware Mechanical Design Embedded Electronics State Estimation Stepper Motor

[01/05/2024-01/11/2025] InBody AI Scale

Consumer Electronic Show 2025, Las Vegas
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Computer Vision AI Height Estimation Face Recognition Segmentation Detection

[09/01/2023-12/23/2023 | 03/01/2024-06/18/2924] Experiment Courses

FPGA Calculator
Full-Wave Rectifier with Voltage & Phase Control

[07/01/2023-07/31/2023] ECG-Based Cardiovascular Diagnosis Device Using ML

🏆 3rd Place (Excellence Award) (12 teams) — InBody Makathon 2023 ($1460)
Project Page | Code
CNN ML ECG

[07/24/2023-07/28/2023] Autonomous Mobile Robot for Executing Missions

🏆 3rd Place (Excellence Award) (20 teams) — AI Object Detection-Based Solar Tracking Robot Challenge ($220)
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PID Monocular Camera Ultrasonic Sensor

[03/07/2022-01/31/2023] Dating App "Sidaeting"

1,700 User Base
UOSLIFE UOSLIFE UOSLIFE

Our team, UOSLIFE, launched the dating service “Sidaeting,” serving 1,700 users. I developed the app’s frontend.

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Frontend React.js HTML CSS