Siyeon Kim

Hi, I am Siyeon Kim. I'm a 4th year PhD student in Utah Learning Lab for Manipulation Autonomy (Ll4ma) at University of Utah in Salt Lake City, working with Prof. Tucker Hermans. I received my master's degree in Computer science and engineering (CSE) at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea, with Prof. Young J. Kim in 2021.

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Research

I'm Interested in the intersection of Robotics and Machine Learning, specifically focusing on Robot Learning, Robot Manipulation, Task-and-Motion Planning (TAMP).

Publications
thumbnail Learning Multimodal Probabilistic Models of Manipulation Skill Effects
Siyeon Kim, Mohanraj D. Shanthi*, Yixuan Huang*, and Tucker Hermans.
ArXiv preprint, 2025.
CoRL Workshop on Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds (LSRW), 2025.
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DefFusionNet: Learning Multimodal Goal Shapes for Deformable Object Manipulation via a Diffusion-based Probabilistic Model
Bao Thach, Siyeon Kim, Britton Jordan,Mohanraj Shanthi, Tanner Watts, Shing-Hei Ho, James M. Ferguson, Tucker Hermans, Alan Kuntz.
arxiv preprint, 2025. (unver review)
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Synthesizing the Roughness of Textured Surfaces for an Encountered-type Haptic Display using Spatiotemporal Encoding
Yaesol Kim, Siyeon Kim, Uran Oh, Young J. Kim.
IEEE Transactions on Haptics (ToH), 2020.
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