Kevin Kim

kimkj [at] usc [dot] edu

I am a third-year undergraduate student at the University of Southern California, studying Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. My research is done under the guidance of Professors Erdem Bıyık and Daniel Seita.

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Research

I am broadly interested in learning and decision making in robotics.

Policy-agnostic Extraction of Essential Keypoints for zero-shot robot manipulation. Fine-tunes VLMs to predict unified point-based intermediate representations: end-effector paths and task-relevant masks, enabling 41.4× real-world improvement for 3D policies.

Fast robot adaptation via hand path retrieval from task-agnostic play data. Uses human hand demonstrations to retrieve relevant robot behaviors, enabling real-time learning of tasks in under four minutes with 2x improvement over baselines.