Prof. Soonmin Hwang
Soonmin Hwang is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Automotive Engineering, Hanyang University (Seoul, Republic of Korea). He was a Postdoctoral researcher at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA, United States). Before joining Carnegie Mellon, he worked at Autopilot team, Tesla (Palo Alto, CA, United States) as a Senior Machine Learning Scientist. During his Ph.D. study, he worked at Qualcomm Research (Vienna, Austria) as an intern in 2016.
He received M.S and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from KAIST, Korea in 2014 and 2019, respectively, under the supervision of Prof. In So Kweon. He received a B.S degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering from Hanyang University, Korea, in 2012.
In 2023, he was selected as an Outstanding Reviewer from IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). He received Samsung HumanTech Paper Awards(Gold prize in 2017, honorable mention in 2018) and the 1st place at NVidia Korea Deep Learning Contest in 2016.
Education
Ph.D, 2019 (KAIST)
M.S, 2014 (KAIST)
B.S, 2012 (Hanyang Univ.)
Experience
Assistant Professor
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2023.09. - Current
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Department of Automotive Engineering
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Hanyang University
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Seoul, Republic of Korea
External Technical Advisory
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2022.07. - Current
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42dot (Hyundai Motor Group)
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Seoul (Remote), Republic of Korea
Postdoctoral Researcher
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2021.09 - 2023.08.
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The Robotics Institute
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Carnegie Mellon University
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Sr. Machine Learning Scientist
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2019.05 - 2021.02.
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Autopilot Team
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Tesla
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Palo Alto, California, USA
Intern
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2016.07 - 2016.11.
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Computer Vision Group
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Qualcomm Research
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Vienna, Austria