Minjae Kang

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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

Office: Building 133 Room 610
Phone: +82-2-880-1512
Email: minjae.kang (at) rllab.snu.ac.kr

Minjae Kang is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University, South Korea. He received a B.S. degree in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from Seoul National University, South Korea in 2019.

Publications

International Journal

• Minjae Kang, Mineui Hong, and Songhwai Oh, "Playbook: Scalable Discrete Skill Discovery from Unstructured Datasets for Long-Horizon Decision-Making Problems," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10, no. 10, pp. 10162-10169, Oct. 2025.
• Hogun Kee, Wooseok Oh, Minjae Kang, Hyemin Ahn, and Songhwai Oh, "Tidiness Score-Guided Monte Carlo Tree Search for Visual Tabletop Rearrangement" IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10, no. 10, pp.10090-10097, Oct. 2025.
• Mineui Hong, Kyungjae Lee, Minjae Kang, Wonsuhk Jung, and Songhwai Oh, "Dynamics-Aware Metric Embedding: Metric Learning in a Latent Space for Visual Planning," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 3388-3395, Apr. 2022.
• Minjae Kang and Songhwai Oh, "Deep Latent-Space Sequential Skill Chaining from Incomplete Demonstrations," Intelligent Service Robotics, vol. 15, pp. 203–213, Apr. 2022.

International Conference

• Minjae Kang, Hogun Kee, Hosung Lee, and Songhwai Oh, "Automatic Real-to-Sim-to-Real System through Iterative Interactions for Robust Robot Manipulation Policy Learning with Unseen Objects," in Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Oct. 2025.
• Minjae Kang, Hogun Kee, Yoseph Park, Junseok Kim, Jaeyeon Jeong, Geunje Cheon, Jaewon Lee, and Songhwai Oh, "Gradual Receptive Expansion Using Vision Transformer for Online 3D Bin Packing," in Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Oct. 2024.
• Mineui Hong, Minjae Kang, and Songhwai Oh, "Diffused Task-Agnostic Milestone Planner," in Proc. of Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Dec. 2023.
• Minjae Kang, Junseok Kim, Hogun Kee, and Songhwai Oh, "Object Rearrangement Planning for Target Retrieval in a Confined Space with Lateral View," in Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Oct. 2023.
• Hogun Kee, Minjae Kang, Dohyeong Kim, Jaegu Choy, and Songhwai Oh, "SDF-Based Graph Convolutional Q-Network for Multi-Object Rearrangement," in Proc of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May. 2023.
• Jeongwoo Oh, Jaeseok Heo, Junseo Lee, Gunmin Lee, Minjae Kang, Jeongho Park, and Songhwai Oh, "SCAN: Socially-Aware Navigation Using Monte Carlo Tree Search,"  in Proc of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May. 2023.
• Minjae Kang, Hogun Kee, Junseok Kim, and Songhwai Oh, "Grasp Planning for Occluded Objects in a Confined Space with Lateral View Using Monte Carlo Tree Search," in Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Oct. 2022.
• Nuri Kim, Minjae Kang, and Songhwai Oh, "Semantic Descriptors into Representation for Robust Indoor Visual Place Recognition," in Proc. of the International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), Oct. 2021.
• Minjae Kang and Songhwai Oh, "Deep Skill Chaining from Incomplete Demonstrations," International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots, Jul. 2021. (Best Conference Paper Award Finalist) 
• Nuri Kim, Yunho Choi, Minjae Kang, and Songhwai Oh, "GOPE: Geometry-Aware Optimal Viewpoint Path Estimation Using a Monocular Camera," in Proc. of the International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), Oct. 2020.
• Minjae Kang*, Kyungjae Lee*, and Songhwai Oh, "Soft Action Particle Deep Reinforcement Learning for a Continuous Action Space," in Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Nov. 2019. [Software]

Teaching Assistant

• Estimation Theory (430.714) Spring 2022 (Seoul National University)
• Introduction to Intelligent Systems (430.457) Fall 2019 (Seoul National University)