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Ph.D. Student · UCLA

Evelyn Kim

Department of Computer Science, UCLA
Advised by Prof. M. Khalid Jawed & Prof. Wei Wang

I am a first-year Ph.D. student at UCLA, working on Robotics AI. My research focuses on high-intelligence autonomous navigation in large-scale agricultural environments, using SLAM, VLM, and Semantic Mapping.

Education

University of California, Los Angeles

ucla.edu ↗

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Advisors: Prof. M. Khalid Jawed & Prof. Wei Wang
Research Area: Robotics, Computer Vision, VLA Models

2025 – Present

University of California, Los Angeles

ucla.edu ↗

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering

Advisors: Prof. M. Khalid Jawed
Research Area: Computer Vision, NeRF

2023 – 2024

Seoul National University

snu.ac.kr ↗

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering

2018 – 2023

Professional Experience

CONNECTEVE

Research Engineer

Aug 2024 – Aug 2025

CONNECTIVE Inc.

Designed a framework for composite image generation to address data scarcity in medical X-ray datasets

VRCrew

Research Engineer

Jan 2023 – Aug 2024

VRCrew Inc.

Developed a visual positioning system (VPS) for a VR application, estimating user location using mobile devices

KIST

Research Intern

Sep 2021 – Aug 2022

Korea Institute of Science and Technology

Proposed a performance restoration method for pruned networks using knowledge distillation with synthetic data generated via network inversion

Saige Research

Research Intern

Feb 2021 – Aug 2021

Saige Research Inc.

Implemented OCR models to automate manufacturing processes

Projects