Hubert Kim, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Niskayuna, New York, United States

• PRODUCT LINE AUTOMATION
• Designed miniaturized end-effectors inspired by human hand behaviors in complicated manufacturing process
• Conducted hand-eye Robot calibration between industrial robots and 2D cameras (accuracy < 6 lp/mm)
• Programmed multi-robot navigation and path planning for synchronized collaborationINSPECTION SERVICE TOOL FOR A LIMITED SPACE
• Prototyped various robot design to solve the accessibility problem and structural rigidity requirement
• Experimentally quantified the parameters from the physical contact during various deployment system

Blacksburg, Virginia

• Led Arm Haptic Feedback Team with rapid prototyping and embedded programming as evidenced by open-source paper, HardwareX
• Managed quantitative human subject studies to discover human perceptual threshold when wearing exoskeleton, as described in paper in Scientific Reports
• Operated project assessing physical Human—Robot Interaction via control design technique ending with poster presentation at 2016 IROS conference

Brooklyn

• Conducted transfer function identification of smart material that led to validating physics-based model in energy harvesting field
• Configured custom and off-shelf data acquisition systems leading to several journal publications (one first author, four authorships) and resulting in ICTAS funding (four-plus-year scholarship) for doctoral study

Brooklyn, NY

• Collaborated with teams from multiple universities to discuss Asteroid Redirect Mission
• Built a tendon-actuated manipulator to detect and grab the spinning object
• Presented at ICED Epic Challenge Student Exposition, NASA Langley Research Center

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering / Minor: Mathematics