Joohwan Seo
Ph.D. Candidate, Mechanical Engineering · UC Berkeley
Autonomy, Robotics and Control (ARC) Lab · Advisor: Prof. Roberto Horowitz
I am a 5th-year Ph.D. student (candidate) in Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley. My major research interests are in controls, robotics, and learning. Currently, I am interested in geometric control and learning for robotics applications.
Feel free to contact me at joohwan_seo@berkeley.edu for collaboration and discussions!
Education
- 2021 – present
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley
Autonomy, Robotics and Control (ARC) Lab · Advisor: Prof. Roberto Horowitz - 2019 – 2021
M.S., School of Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University
Machine Learning and Control System Lab (MLCS) · Advisor: Prof. Jongeun Choi - 2013 – 2019
B.S., School of Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University
Graduated with the highest honor, Summa Cum Laude (1/140)
News
- Oct 2026
New preprint: “Precise SE(3) End-Effector Tracking in Whole-Body Humanoid Control” is on arXiv.
- Sep 2026
New preprint: “CoHuB: A Simulation Benchmark for Multi-Humanoid Collaboration” is on arXiv.
- 2026
“Partially Equivariant Reinforcement Learning in Symmetry-breaking Environments” is accepted to ICLR 2026.
- 2025
Our tutorial paper on geometric deep learning for robotics, “SE(3)-Equivariant Robot Learning and Control: A Tutorial Survey”, is published in IJCAS!
- Sep 2025
Invited talk at the AAI Seminar, Seoul National University (video).
- Jul 2025
EquiContact is released on arXiv; presented at the 2nd Workshop on Dexterous Manipulation @ CoRL 2025.
- Oct 2024
AwardBest Poster Award (IEEE RAS TC for Computer & Robot Vision) at the Equivariant Robotics Workshop @ IROS 2024.
Death Valley Travel
Me at Death Valley travel (Thanks to Sangwon Park) 😀
