About / Professional biography
Taehyoung Kim.
Research Engineer · Fraunhofer IVI
A short introduction for talks, collaborations, and getting to know my work.
Short bio.
Taehyoung Kim is a research engineer at Fraunhofer IVI working on robotic perception and aerial autonomy. His research spans video understanding, multimodal sensing, and semantic 3D mapping, with a focus on connecting research ideas to working robotic systems.
My journey.
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Mar 2024 - Present
Associate Researcher
Fraunhofer IVI
Research on aerial autonomy, from data curation and multimodal perception to mapping and on-board deployment. I’m also exploring language-driven mission planning.
SSP at CVPR 2025 -
Apr 2023 - Feb 2024
Research Internship
Fraunhofer IVI
Developed learning-based UAV path planning for my aerospace master’s thesis, “From Supervised to Reinforced.”
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Nov 2021 - Oct 2023
M.Sc. Aerospace Engineering
Technical University of Munich
Thesis: “From Supervised to Reinforced: A One-Shot Deep Learning Approach to UAV Path Planning.” Grade: 1.3.
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Mar 2021 - Mar 2023
Working Student
Azena
Part-time role alongside my studies.
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Nov 2020 - Dec 2022
Research Internship
Technical University of Munich
Worked on quadrotor energy modeling and fault-tolerant control using deep reinforcement learning.
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2019 - 2022
M.Sc. Power Engineering
Technical University of Munich
Thesis: “Fault-Tolerant Quadrotor Controller Design Using Deep Reinforcement Learning.” Grade: 1.1.
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2013 - 2019
B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering
Pusan National University
Undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering.