Education: M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Contact: taeyeon.kim@bmsis.org
Advisor(s): Dr. Jennifer Blank
Links: BRAILLE Project, Google Scholar
Taeyeon Kim is a robotics engineer and researcher with expertise in autonomous systems, robotic perception, and field robotics. He received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), where his research focused on autonomous aerial robotics and computer vision.
As a Visiting Scholar at Blue Marble Space (BMS), Taeyeon works on NASA's BRAILLE project under Dr. Jennifer Blank, contributing to the development of concepts of operations for future planetary cave exploration using quadruped robots. He continues to develop electro-optical sensing systems and apply deep-learning-based computer vision models to potential cave biomarker detection.
As a member of the JPL-led Team CoSTAR, he participated in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge, contributing to multi-camera sensing, object detection pipelines, and RF-based target localization for a fleet of autonomous search-and-rescue robots.
His research goal is to develop robots for missions that exceed human physical limits or pose significant risks to humans, ultimately contributing to a better future for humanity.