Sookwan Han | 한수관

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Hi! I'm an undergraduate student at Seoul National University, majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering. I'm an intern in Visual Computing Lab, under the guidance of Prof. Hanbyul Joo.

I am leading team ROUND.

Contact me if you are interested! Check Email Here

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[News]

Jun 2025 나라의 마지막 희망; 그리고 나아가야할 방향

Jun 2025 I'm going to YC AI startup school. See you in San Francisco

May 2025 Gave a talk at Balaji NS

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Open-Source

ResearchClaw
Experiment 24/7 while you sleep: Autonomous RA, human-in-the-loop guidance also possible.
I'm currently building a clone of myself.
(Alpha) pipx install researchclaw and researchclaw /path/to/project to use researchclaw
[GitHub] [PyPI]

Publications

* equal contribution; † corresponding author

RobotHome: An Instrumented Multi-Camera System for Real-Time Triadic Human-Robot Collaboration
..., Sookwan Han*, ... (Advisor: Prof. Hanbyul Joo)
Preprint
[Preprint]

Multi-camera home-replica system for exploring real-time triadic human-robot collaboration.

SyncSDE: A Probabilistic Framework for Diffusion Synchronization
Hyunjun Lee*, Hyunsoo Lee*, Sookwan Han^†
In CVPR 2025
[arXiv] [Project Page]

Probabilistic framework unifying diffusion synchronization

Beyond the Contact: Discovering Comprehensive Affordance for 3D Objects from Pre-trained 2D Diffusion Models
Hyeonwoo Kim*, Sookwan Han*, Patric Kwon, Hanbyul Joo^†
In ECCV 2024 as Oral Presentation
[arXiv] [Project Page] [Code]

Novel representation that jointly models contact, orientation, and spatial affordances.

Learning Canonicalized 3D Human-Object Spatial Relations from Unbounded Synthesized Images
Sookwan Han, Hanbyul Joo^†
In ICCV 2023 as Oral Presentation
[arXiv] [Project Page] [Code]

Scalable method for inferring how humans spatially interact with tools and objects.

Chupa: Carving 3D Clothed Humans from Skinned Shape Priors using 2D Diffusion Probabilistic Models
Byungjun Kim*, Patric Kwon*, Kwangho Lee, Myunggi Lee, Sookwan Han, Daesik Kim^†, Hanbyul Joo^†
In ICCV 2023 as Oral Presentation
[arXiv] [Project Page] [Code]

3D clothed human reconstruction from single images using diffusion-based carving on SMPL priors.

Side Projects

Biomimetic Shellfish Robot for Microplastic Collection
Built a low-power biomimetic underwater robot inspired by scallop jet-propulsion and contraction-expansion actuation.
[Report]

Autonomous Mini-Car Competition
Coding mentor for Python-based perception and control (competition adapted from MIT Beaver Works).
[YouTube]

Honors/Awards

Physics Expert Certification (Nationwide) - Expert in all fields

University Math Competition (Nationwide) - Gold Prize

Military Honors - Chief-of-Staff of Air Force Award + Minister of National Defense Award

SNU FastMRI Challenge - 1st place (144 teams)

Heart Disease AI Datathon - Grand Prize (169 teams)

Teaching

Diffusion Models Lecture - Led diffusion models lecture at Visual Computing Lab (Materials)

Scholarships

Google Travel Grants - Support for attending AI conferences (ICCV, ECCV)

Presidential Science Scholarship - Full scholarship for undergraduate studies

Misc

YC AI Startup School - 2500 Attendees Selected (Link)

Talk at Balaji NS - SyncSDE Talk (Link)

Affiliation

Seoul National University

Undergraduate
2020.03 - 2026.08 (Expected)

Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Student Body President of SNU ECE (2022)
Leave of absence for military service (2 years: 2023 2nd - 2025 1st)

Seoul Science High School

Graduated
2017.03 - 2020.02

Major: Math, Physics

Research/Work Experience

Visual Computing Lab

Intern

2022.03 - 2023.11
2025.09 - Current

Advisor: Hanbyul Joo
Research Area: Robotics; Human-Object Interaction
Machine perception for understanding human-object interactions.

VLSI Lab