2026 speaker

Hyeongyu Kim

Hyeongyu Kim

Founder & CEO Space AI Co., Ltd.
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◆ Education
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, GIST (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology)
• Research focus: AI and computer vision applied to robotic intelligence in unstructured environments

◆ Business Leadership
• Founded Space AI Co., Ltd. as a GIST undergraduate (June 2023)
• Secured ₩200M seed investment in 2024
• Selected for TIPS R&D program (₩500M government grant) — milestones achieved ahead of schedule
• Led B2B paid PoC contracts with major Korean conglomerate partners
• Pre-A round in active discussion with strategic investors

◆ Technical Leadership
• Strategic architect of Space AI’s three-stage roadmap: Force DaaS → Force + Synthetic SaaS → Physical AI Standard API
• Core technical scope: simulation–rendering–GT-extraction integrated pipeline
- Physics simulation: FEM/PBD/MPM-based soft-body dynamics
- Sensor rendering: PBR-based photorealistic RGB/Depth generation
- Ground truth extraction: contact force, strain, stress distribution — quantifying non-visual states
- Sim-to-Real: transfer learning design and validation pipeline
• Advised by Prof. Kyoobin Lee (CSO; GIST AI Graduate School; outside director, Naurobotics KOSDAQ)