Seo Wook Han

Daejeon, Korea

seowook.han@kaist.ac.kr

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), advised by Prof. Min Jun Kim at the Intelligent Robotic Systems Lab.

My research is centered on robotics, primarily focusing on (but not limited to):

Robot Learning
Robotic Manipulation
State Estimation
Optimization-based Control

Previously, I completed my M.S. in Electrical Engineering at KAIST (2024), and my B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Korea University (2022). I have also spent time as a guest researcher at the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

selected publications

T-RO

Mixture of Flow Matching and Particle Filter for Proprioception-based Online Contact Estimation

Seo Wook Han and Min Jun Kim

IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2026 (accepted, will be presented at Humanoids 2026)

Bib YouTube

@article{han2026mixture,
  title = {Mixture of Flow Matching and Particle Filter for Proprioception-based Online Contact Estimation},
  author = {Han, Seo Wook and Kim, Min Jun},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)},
  year = {2026},
  note = {(accepted, will be presented at Humanoids 2026)},
}

ICRA

CDM: Contact Diffusion Model for Multi-Contact Point Localization

Seo Wook Han and Min Jun Kim

In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Atlanta, USA, 2025

arXiv Bib IEEE YouTube

@inproceedings{han2025cdm,
  title = {CDM: Contact Diffusion Model for Multi-Contact Point Localization},
  author = {Han, Seo Wook and Kim, Min Jun},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  year = {2025},
  pages = {3061--3067},
  location = {Atlanta, USA},
}

ICRA

Online Multi-Contact Feedback Model Predictive Control for Interactive Robotic Tasks

Seo Wook Han, Maged Iskandar, Jinoh Lee, and Min Jun Kim

In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan, 2024

arXiv Bib IEEE YouTube

@inproceedings{han2024online,
  title = {Online Multi-Contact Feedback Model Predictive Control for Interactive Robotic Tasks},
  author = {Han, Seo Wook and Iskandar, Maged and Lee, Jinoh and Kim, Min Jun},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  year = {2024},
  pages = {11556--11562},
  location = {Yokohama, Japan},
}

ICRA

Proprioceptive Sensor-Based Simultaneous Multi-Contact Point Localization and Force Identification for Robotic Arms

Seo Wook Han and Min Jun Kim

In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, UK, 2023

arXiv Bib IEEE YouTube

@inproceedings{han2023proprioceptive,
  title = {Proprioceptive Sensor-Based Simultaneous Multi-Contact Point Localization and Force Identification for Robotic Arms},
  author = {Han, Seo Wook and Kim, Min Jun},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  year = {2023},
  pages = {12099--12105},
  location = {London, UK},
}