Chanyoung Ahn

Developed a reinforcement learning policy for in-hand object rotation using haptic feedback in Isaac Sim, targeting objects with eccentric center of mass (accepted to ICRA 2025 Workshop) ◦ Designed a learning platform for object property inference and manipulation planning using a dexterous robotic hand in a national project on tactile intelligence for 3+ haptic sensing and two robotic hands ◦ Led system design and implementation of a tangible robotic display integrating Korean mask aesthetics and magnetic jamming, showcased at ICRA 2025 Arts in Robotics

Intern @ KISTI | Supercomputing Applications Center Developed a benchmarking module for sparse matrix parallelization using MPI with C/Fortran; accepted to the 2024 Society for Computational Design and Engineering (CDE) ◦ Contributed to the development and documentation of the open-source repository PaScaL_TDMA for scalable HPC applications ◦ Led a GitHub workshop for 8+ researchers, improving repository collaboration and version control practices across the team

Master's degree student @ Robust Intelligence and Robotics Lab, KAIST School of Computing. Research focuses on deformable object manipulation and reinforcement learning. Mentor: Dae Hyung Park

Mechanical Engineering

Undergraduate Research Intern @ Experimental Thermo-Fluids Mechanics and Energy Systems Lab, PNU School of Mechanical Engineering. Research focuses on designing an airfoil that reduces noise by incorporating the characteristics of an owl's wing serrations. Mentor: Kyung Chun Kim

Constructed the 12-unit cube satellite to weigh less and withstand the space environment. Validated our cube satellite structure to satisfy ISILaunch requirements using ANSYS numerical analysis.