About

CV - Please download the pdf version here (January 2020)

Hyeongkeun ‘Hugo’ Kim is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Hugo received his bachelor’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering, with a dual major in Bio and Brain engineering at KAIST (Spring 2020, Cum Laude). From 2013 to 2015, Hugo was a recipient of Korea Presidential Science Scholarship.

As a graduate student in the UIUC Nanoengineering Laboratory (advisor: Professor William P. King), Hugo is working on digital manufacturing of soft materials.

With the background in both Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering, Hugo participated in several research projects that applied robotics to the field of biology.

In 2016, Hugo joined NAVER Labs Robotics Group (currently NAVER LABS Corp.) as a research intern and developed TuskBot, a bio-inspired wheeled-robot platform that can traverse any stairs, with other interns. TuskBot had been presented in IROS 2017 and received domestic media coverage from Chosun-ilbo, SBS-CNBC, ZDNet Korea and so on.

Before NAVER LABS, Hugo had been a member of MR (Microrobot Research), a robotics club in KAIST. In the club, Hugo co-founded Team W5, a team that seeks seamless integration of robotics in biology research. BioLab-MYCO, one of their works, had been presented in the 2014 Intel Korea Year-End Press Conference, received domestic media coverage from CNET Korea (Archive) and so on, and published in Sensors as a journal article.

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