Woo Chul (Woochul) Shin

Hello! I'm Woo Chul, a master's student majoring in CS at Georgia Tech, where I am advised by Prof. Danfei Xu.

I earned my undergraduate degree at Seoul National University where I double majored in Artificial Intelligence and Economics.

Please feel free to check out my CV and drop me an email if you want to chat!

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Research

I study 1) robot learning for robots to acquire and generalize skills from human videos and demonstrations. My research focuses on 2) dexterous manipulation with tactile and force feedback, making robots adapt to contact-rich interactions in dynamic environments. I want to develop 3) robot reasoning systems that plan, compose, and adapt skills over long horizons, moving beyond imitation toward purposeful autonomy. Ultimately, my goal is to "build good robots" that can learn, think, and interact with humans in real-world environments.

EgoEngine is a powerful data engine that converts egocentric human videos into robot-executable demonstrations. By coupling an action branch (retargeting with refinforcement learning refinement) and a visual branch (arm-hand inpainting with robot rendering blending) under the same task, EgoEngine minimizes action and visual gaps to yield scalable, executable robot data.

Compositional Visual Planning via Inference-Time Diffusion Scaling is a training-free framework that extends diffusion models from short-horizon to long-horizon robot planning. Instead of averaging independently denoised segments—which leads to instability in noisy spaces—it enforces boundary consistency on Tweedie estimates through a combination of synchronous and asynchronous message passing across a chain-structured factor graph. This inference-time approach produces globally coherent plans and significantly improves generalization to unseen start–goal tasks across diverse simulation environments.

ImMimic is an embodiment-agnostic co-training framework that bridges the domain gap between large-scale human videos and limited robot demonstrations. It uses Dynamic Time Warping to map human hand poses to robot joints and applies MixUp interpolation to generate intermediate domains for smoother domain adaptation. Evaluations across two parallel-jaw grippers (Robotiq, Fin Ray) and two dexterous hands (Ability, Allegro) demonstrate that ImMimic significantly improves task success and execution smoothness.

SAIL (Speed-Adaptive Imitation Learning) is a framework for enabling faster-than- demonstration execution of policies by addressing key technical challenges in robot dynamics and state-action distribution shifts. SAIL achieves up to a 4× speedup over demonstration speed in simulation and up to 3.2× speedup on physical robot.

MimicLabs is a data generation framework to procedurally emulate key sources of diversity in robot datasets. Using this framework, we generate large-scale datasets with controlled variations to analyze how collection diversity and retrieval strategies impact downstream policy learning.

Work Experience

Software Development Engineer Intern, Amazon (May 2025 -- Aug. 2025)
Bellevue, WA
* Developed AI Orchestration and Responsible AI components for Amazon's Nova AI models.

Research Assistant, Georgia Tech (Fall 2024 -- Present)
Atlanta, GA / Lab: Robot Learning and Reasoning Lab / Advisor: Danfei Xu / Collaborator: Yunhai Han from STAR Lab

Software Engineer, Kakao (Jun. 2024 -- Jul. 2024)
South Korea
* Developed an Kubernetes-based ML platform for AI model training and inference.

Software Engineer, Kakao Brain (Aug. 2022 -- May. 2024)
South Korea
* Developed an Kubernetes-based ML platform from scratch for AI model training and inference.

Software Engineer Intern, Elysia (Mar. 2022 -- Jun. 2022)
South Korea
* Built backend server and smart contracts for a blockchain-based crowdfunding service.

Software Engineer Intern, Kakao Brain (Dec. 2021 -- May. 2022)
South Korea
* Built an AI resume creation service using GPT-2.

Software Engineer Intern, SNUAILAB (Dec. 2020 -- May. 2021)
South Korea
* Developed a YOLOv4-based image labeling system to annotate pig farm data.

Teaching Experience

CS4644/CS7643, Deep Learning, Georgia Tech
Spring 2026, Graduate Teaching Assistant

CS4644/CS7643, Deep Learning, Georgia Tech
Fall 2025, Graduate Teaching Assistant

CS4644/CS7643, Deep Learning, Georgia Tech
Spring 2025, Graduate Teaching Assistant

CS4644/CS7643, Deep Learning, Georgia Tech
Fall 2024, Graduate Teaching Assistant

M2177.007100, Field Application Research of Blockchain 2, SNU
Spring 2022, Teaching Assistant

M2177.007000, Field Application Research of Blockchain 1, SNU
Fall 2021, Teaching Assistant

Embodiment Experience