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Jinmin Kim김진민

Robot Software Engineer — 3D Registration, Medical Imaging, Robot Systems

An R&D engineer whose work spans surgical navigation, XR, 3D registration, multi-sensor integration, and autonomous-forklift field deployment. I connect coordinate models and algorithms to physical devices, user interfaces, and explicit validation flows.

Education

  1. DGIST

    M.S. in Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering

    • Surgical Robotics and Augmented Reality Laboratory (advisor: Jaesung Hong) — surgical navigation team
    • Thesis: Virtual Jawbone Reduction Planning based on Dental Occlusion for Mandibular Fracture Surgery
    • Multi-centre oral and maxillofacial AR surgery programme (2021.06 - 2023.05) — early and supporting development of the Unity-based AR navigation

  2. Kumoh National Institute of Technology

    B.S. in Mechanical System Engineering

    • Undergraduate researcher, System & Vision Lab. (2019 - 2020); completed the DGIST and UNIST summer undergraduate research programmes
    • Designed and built a five-bar-linkage quadruped robot (2020.04 - 2021.01) — mechanism design, kinematic modelling, and control, leading to a patent application and an engineering-fair award
    • Vice president of the invention club (2019) — several patent applications and invention-contest awards; the club was designated an outstanding education-donation club by the Ministry of Education

Experience

  1. DIGITRACK Inc.

    Researcher · Software Development

    A DGIST spin-off medical-device and robotics company (marker-based 3D optical tracking devices and software), Daegu

    Surgical navigation and medical imaging

    • Over three years of collaboration with the oral and maxillofacial surgery department of Samsung Medical Center — biweekly clinical meetings since 2023, with two government programmes and one development contract carried as the main engineer.
    • Since 2026.03, co-developing a maxillofacial digital-occlusion workflow with Samsung Medical Center researchers. As technical lead and primary developer, owning the Custom App architecture, end-to-end UI/UX, landmark and occlusion-engine integration, and the evaluation/export pipeline while researcher validation is ongoing.
    • Sole developer of the 3D Slicer-based surgical-navigation software in use at the hospital — registering and overlaying the surgical plan through optical tracking, and building an AR surgical guide on a registered HoloLens 2 coordinate frame.
    • Built a patient-and-clinician consultation XR application on Meta Quest, synchronising spatial, voice, and scenario state across users.
    • Led development of the NeuroPilot rTMS coil-navigation system — a license-gated medical navigation product delivered to AT&C and under ongoing maintenance (health-technology government programme).
    • Low-dose C-arm 3D navigation — connected C-arm imaging to the 3D navigation workflow and implemented the owned feature scope.
    • Own surface-guided respiratory tracking and 4D CBCT registration for radiotherapy (large KERI programme, 2026.06 - ).
    • Delivered several development contracts for research institutes including KERI and KIMM.

    3D optical tracking software

    • Develop and maintain the API and Viewer software for SKADI, the in-house optical 3D tracker — the software layer of a product line delivered to Korean surgical-navigation companies and research institutes.
    • Wrote a 3D Slicer custom-application template so research groups can start a navigation prototype immediately.

    Industrial robotics — autonomous forklift (2025 - )

    • Designed and implemented the safety-policy manager for the in-house autonomous-forklift solution (DOTORI) and integrated LiDAR and ToF sensors over the Zenoh and ROS 2 network.
    • Own vision R&D — truck-loading vision with ToF and RGB fusion, a SAM-family segmentation proof of concept, and behaviour-tree integration.
    • Deployed, commissioned, and operated the system at two production sites, including the field-deployment engineering.

    Personal — building with AI (2026 - )

    • LLM Wiki — built and operate a personal knowledge system driven by AI agents. I own the framing, architecture, and verification while delegating much of the implementation to agents, and run the real-data migration and daily automation routines (TypeScript, Python, PostgreSQL, MCP).

Publications and presentations

  1. Development and Clinical Evaluation of an Extended Reality-Based Consultation Platform "OMFS VR Consultation App" for Enhanced Patient Understanding in Orthognathic Surgery2026 Spring Conference, Korean Society of Medical Metaverse · Poster presentation · Co-author
  2. A Proof of Concept: Optimized Jawbone-Reduction Model for Mandibular Fracture SurgeryJournal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SCIE, Q1) · Journal article · Joint first author
  3. Set-up of Dental Final Occlusion using Haptic Device in Orthognathic Surgery2024 Spring Conference, Korean Society of Medical Metaverse · Poster presentation · Co-author · Best Poster Award
  4. Occlusion-based Jawbone Model Optimization for Mandibular Fracture Surgery14th Conference, Korean Society of Medical Robotics · Oral presentation · Co-author · Best Paper Award
  5. Dental Occlusion Model Using Arch Line for Mandibular Fracture SurgeryACCAS 2022, Bangkok, Thailand · International conference paper · First author
  6. Virtual Jawbone Model Reconstruction for Mandibular Fracture Surgery Guidance13th Conference, Korean Society of Medical Robotics · Oral presentation · First author
  7. Design of Ping-Pong Ball LauncherISM 2019 — International Symposium on Mechatronics · Conference paper · First author

Patents7 applications · 3 granted

  1. GrantedCoordinate-frame registration method for real-time 3D tracking of surgical instruments10-2024-0186869 · 2024.12 filed · Employment
  2. GrantedPosition tracking device and method10-2024-0186864 · 2024.12 filed · Employment
  3. FiledTwo-axis rotating stereo-camera actuation device and method10-2024-0127937 · 2024.09 filed · Employment
  4. FiledQuadruped walking robot using a multi-joint link structure10-2021-0008332 · 2021.01 filed · Undergraduate
  5. GrantedClothes hanger with an elastic section10-2019-0100328 · 2019.08 filed · Undergraduate
  6. FiledAssemblable carrier with adjustable storage space10-2019-0010185 · 2019.01 filed · Undergraduate
  7. FiledDisposable paper-cup collection bin10-2015-0122661 · 2015.08 filed · Undergraduate

Honours and awards9 total

  1. Best Poster AwardKorean Society of Medical Metaverse
  2. Best Paper AwardKorean Society of Medical Robotics
  3. Encouragement Prize, Engineering Fair (five-bar-linkage quadruped robot)Kumoh National Institute of Technology
  4. Bronze Prize, ROS-based autonomous-driving trainingTraining programme competition
  5. Grand Prize, International TRIZ CompetitionThe International TRIZ Association
  6. Grand Prize, Startup Idea CompetitionKumoh National Institute of Technology
  7. Sponsor's Award, University Creative Invention ContestKorea Invention Promotion Association
  8. Excellence Award, GREEN Earth CompetitionHyosung
  9. Excellence Award, University Creative Invention ContestKorea Invention Promotion Association

Skills and languages

Programming
Python, C++, C#
Medical imaging
3D Slicer, DICOM, image registration (rigid, ICP), segmentation (SAM family)
3D and XR
Unity, HoloLens 2 (MRTK), Meta Quest, optical tracking
Robotics
ROS 2, Zenoh, Isaac Sim, behaviour trees
AI tooling
PyTorch, LLM-agent-based development workflow
Languages
English - Intermediate (paper writing and reading) · Japanese - JLPT N2 (2021)

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