Sooyong Shin

About

I am a B.S. Student in KAIST, Major Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Interested in Computer Vision Systems for Robot perception, with a particular focus on Visual SLAM.
Also interested in Vision Lanugage Navigation, leveraging Multimodal models for more intuitive and efficient communication.

Currently, I am taking courses in Robot Control and Graph Neural Networks (GNN), and studying the Robot Operating System (ROS) through an Individual Study. I am also actively broadening my understanding across other areas in robotics.

Education

KAISTFeb 2018 - currently

B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Work Experiences

KC-ML2Seoul, South Korea

Research InternAug 2024 - Feb 2025

Research on Relocalization for Robot Mapping

Focused on Text-based Failure Recovery in Monocular Visual SLAM

Manuscript in preparation. First author work conducted during the internship at KC-ML2 (2024–2025).

Skills: C++, Python, ORB SLAM, YOLO, Paddle OCR

BookendDaejeon, South Korea

Software Engineer (Full Stack)May 2023 - Aug 2024

Developed Sentensify, a multilingual AI writing and paraphrasing tool leveraging a GPT-based large language model

Skills: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React, FastAPI, MongoDB, ChatGPT API

Software Engineering Intern (Frontend)Dec 2022 - Feb 2023

Developed TYPHERE,awriter-publisher mobile platform designed to streamline and enhance the book publishing process

Skills: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React-Native

Projects

KAIST Swimming Team KAORI WebpageDaejeon, South Korea
www.kaist-kaori.org
Full Stack Developer

Developed a webpage to archive swimming records and member information, enabling analysis of trends and distributions

Tools Used: JavaScript(React), Python(Fast API), MongoDB

Leadership Experience

KAIST MRDaejeon, South Korea

memberMar 2025 - currently

AI Robotics KRSouth Korea

Community ManagerOct 2024 - currently

Republic of Korea ArmyPaju, South Korea

Sergeant, honorable dischargeMar 2019 - Nov 2020

Korean Red Cross LifeguardDaejeon, South Korea

Aug 2018 - currently

KAIST Swimming Team KAORIDaejeon, South Korea

Senior memberMar 2018 - currently

President of KAORI2022

Chariman of KAIST Swimming Competition2023

Vitæ

Full Resume in PDF.

KC-ML2 Aug. 2024 -

Research Intern
Robotics
Bookend May. 2023 - Aug. 2024

Software Engineer
Full-stack
Bookend Dec. 2022 - Feb. 2023

Software Engineering intern
Frontend
KAIST Sept. 2018 -

B.S. in Electrical Engineering
Double major Computer Science
SASA Mar. 2015 - Feb. 2018

Sejong Academy of Science and Art (Science High school)
23rd Samsung Humantech Paper Awards:
Bronze Prize, and Honorable Mention in the Chemistry Category