Hello, I’m Joonkyung Kim!
I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, advised by Prof. Yiwei Lyu. I received my B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electronic Engineering from Sogang University, where I worked at the AI Robotics Lab under Prof. Changjoo Nam. From Aug. 2024 to Feb. 2025, I was a Visiting Scholar at Carnegie Mellon University.
I work on safety in robotic systems, particularly in real-world deployment and multi-agent settings. My recent research focuses on developing generalizable safety representations that bridge the gap between control-theoretic safety methods with strong guarantees and real-world robotic systems operating under uncertainty and distribution shifts. More broadly, I study how robotics safety should extend beyond physical constraints to include semantic, decision-level, and human-centered safety for AI-enabled robotic systems.