Howoong Jun

Ph.D Candidate

Department of Artificial Intelligence
Seoul National University

1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 08826, Korea

Office: Building 133 Room 610

Email: howoong.jun@rllab.snu.ac.kr

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Education

• 2021-present Ph.D candidate in Artificial Intelligence, Seoul National University
• 2017-2019 M.S in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University
• 2010-2017 B.S in Electrical and Computer Engineering(Combined minor: Bio-Engineering), Seoul National University

Experiences

• 2019-2022 Research Engineer, SK Telecom
  

  • New Mobility TF, Autonomous Shuttle Bus Project
  • Mobility Labs, HD Map Update Project (Road Learner)
  • Location Labs, Visual Positioning System (VPS) Project
• 2012-2014 Skilled Industrial Personnel (Alternative Military Service), Seoho Electric, co., ltd

Publications

International Journal

• Howoong Jun, Seongbo Ha, Jaewon Lee, Hyeonwoo Yu, and Songhwai Oh, "Memory-Efficient Voxelized Renderable Neural 3D Spatial Representation for Vision-Based Robotics," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 11, no. 1, pp.113-120, Jan. 2026.

International Conference

• Howoong Jun, Seongbo Ha, Jaewon Lee, Hyeonwoo Yu, and Songhwai Oh, "Memory-Efficient Voxelized Renderable Neural 3D Spatial Representation for Vision-Based Robotics," in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Jun. 2026. (RA-L option)
• Howoong Jun, Hyeonwoo Yu, and Songhwai Oh, "Renderable Street View Map-Based Localization: Leveraging 3D Gaussian Splatting for Street-Level Positioning," in Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Oct. 2024.
• Minsoo Kim, Obin Kwon, Howoong Jun, and Songhwai Oh, "RNR-Nav: A Real-World Visual Navigation System Using Renderable Neural Radiance Maps," in Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Oct. 2024.
• Howoong Jun, Sangil Lee, and Songhwai Oh, "EventPointNet: Robust Keypoint Detection with Neuromorphic Camera Data," in Proc. of the International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), Nov. 2022.
• Hyemin Ahn, Obin Kwon, Kyungdo Kim, Jaeyeon Jeong, Howoong Jun, Hongjung Lee, Dongheui Lee, and Songhwai Oh, "Visually Grounding Language Instruction for History-Dependent Manipulation," in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2022.
• Howoong Jun, Hanjun Kim, and Beomhee Lee, "Goal-driven Navigation for Non-holonomic Multi-robot System by Learning Collision," in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2019.

Domestic Conference

• 전호웅, 유현우, 오성회, "3D 가우시안 스플래팅과 거리뷰 데이터를 활용한 위치 추정", 제20회 한국로봇종합학술대회, Feb. 2025.
• 전호웅, 오성회, "시각 정보 기반 네비게이션을 위한 국소 특징 추출법에 대한 고찰", 제21회 정보 및 제어 학술대회, Oct, 2021.
• 전호웅, 이범희, "Setting a Safe Boundary for Holonomic to Non-Holonomic Conversion", 제14회 한국로봇종합학술대회, Jan. 2019.
• 전호웅, 이범희, "저차원 학습 환경을 이용한 고차원 환경의 동적 장애물 회피 방법", 제33회 제어로봇시스템 학술대회, May. 2018. 
• 전호웅, 김한준, 이범희, "SLAM Compensating Method in the Vulnerable Situations by IMU Odometry," 제13회 한국로봇종합학술대회, Jan. 2018.

Awards

• SK Telecom AI Graduate Scholarship, SK Telecom, 2017, 2018.
• National Science and Engineering Scholarship, Korea Scholarship Foundation, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016.

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant, Seoul National University
  

  • 2021 Spring, Fall: IoT, AI, and Big Data (M2177.004900_001)
  • 2017 Spring: Introduction to Robotics (430.452A_001)