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• Realized camera-IMU synchronization system for compensating tool's inherent vibration

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