Kijun Kim김기준

B.S. Candidate, Mechanical Engineering — Seoul National University

jkgkgj@snu.ac.kr · GitHub · LinkedIn · CV (PDF)

About

I'm an undergraduate at Seoul National University's Department of Mechanical Engineering, working across mechatronics design and robotics research. I'm currently a research intern at RPM Lab (advised by Prof. Ayoung Kim), building a ground-truth system for multi-sensor navigation on quadruped robots. On the side, I enjoy building things with LLM tooling — I run Gwanak AI Club, an SNU community of ~330 AI practitioners.

Education

Seoul National University B.S.

Mar 2021 – Feb 2028 (expected)

Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering

Research & Experience

Undergraduate Research Intern (UROP) — RPM Lab, SNU

Jun 2026 – Present

Advisor: Prof. Ayoung Kim · Mentor: Wooseong Yang

Developing a per-sensor ground-truth acquisition system for navigation on the Spot quadruped robot (LiDAR, IMU, camera, radar), built on PALoc prior-map localization.

Peer Tutor — Statistics, SNU

Sep 2026 – Present

Lead a weekly 2-hour tutoring session: concept review, problem solving and Q&A, with materials I prepare each week.

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant — Introduction to Computing, SNU

Mar – Jun 2026; Sep 2026 – Present

Supported students in the computing fundamentals course over two semesters.

Social Service Agent — welfare facility for children with disabilities

Dec 2023 – Sep 2025

Mandatory military service, completed.

Honors & Awards

Bronze Prize, 15th SNU College of Engineering Creative Design Festival — KIH: Keyboard In my Hand Sep 2026
Grand Prize, SNU Mechatronics Competition — KIH: Keyboard In my Hand Dec 2025

Selected Projects

KIH: Keyboard In my Hand team lead · Grand Prize · Bronze Prize

A glove-type wearable Hangul keyboard: 16 tactile switches, sequential thumb-press input, with repeated taps mirroring the 가획 principle of Hangul. In a 20-participant study, typing speed rose from 2.3 to 10.6 WPM over 15 one-minute eyes-free trials. Extended to XR: the same layout runs glove-free on camera hand tracking.

Mechatronics Wearable Hangul IME XR / Hand Tracking

Details → GitHub ↗

Gwanak AI Club founder · ~330 members · 2026 – present

An SNU community (KakaoTalk open chat) for AI/LLM practitioners to share the latest developments and individual use cases. Focused on hands-on LLM tooling and workflow sharing rather than passive news consumption.

Community LLM

Leadership & Service

President — Zither, Mechanical Engineering band (vocals & guitar). Led the scaling of the club from small to large.2022 – 2024
PR Director — CISL Presentation Society, 31st cohort2021 – 2022
Mentor — Nanum Classroom, Phronesis Volunteer Corps (led ice-breaking team at Seoya High School camp)Summer 2022
Mentee — KOSAF Social Leaders Mentoring (Samsung Electronics · National Intelligence Service mentors)2021, 2023

Skills

Design: Fusion 360, Autodesk Inventor
Programming: Python
AI / LLM: practical LLM tooling, community building
Language: Korean (native), English (TOEIC 870), Japanese (learning)

Fellowships & Scholarships

Hyunsong Educational & Cultural Foundation Scholarship — advisor-nominated external merit (₩8M/yr) 2022; 2026 – present

Music

Bands I've played in. Vocals & guitar.

Zither — SNU Mechanical Engineering band · covers (videos · channel) 2022 – 2024
Redacted (부적절한밴드) — covers & originals (channel) 2024 – present
Free-fall (자유낙하) — originals (channel) 2026 – present

Photos

A small gallery — portfolio moments and life beyond engineering. To be filled.