About

Ujin Kwon · 권우진

I am a Mechanical & Computer Engineering student focused on optimal control, numerical optimization, and dynamics. I build nonlinear solvers, vehicle-autonomy and perception systems, telemetry runtimes, and analysis tools—and validate them with measured experiments, field logs, or physical hardware.

Open Source Maintainership

Maintainer, Autoware Universe autoware_carla_interface
Autoware Foundation · #13449 · KSAE member news

Eight merged changes to the package across sensor timing, camera output, simulation noise, capture rate, timestamp correctness, and gear handling:

#13149 — corrected CARLA sensor publish timing at matched rates.
#13151 — added configurable camera encoding with a measured 4× payload reduction for mono8.
#13154 — added configurable IMU/GNSS noise and bias with backward-compatible defaults.
#13407 — aligned CARLA sensor capture and publication rates.
#13408 — retained the capture frame and timestamp of each sensor measurement.
#13411 — added bgr8 camera output with 25% less payload than bgra8.
#13409 — published depth and semantic-segmentation cameras through the existing image path.
#13150 — added gear-command handling: reverse, non-driving-gear braking, and gear-status reporting.

Also submitted measured technical reviews on odometry frame consistency and initial-pose spawning.

Maintainer role, merged work, and reviews

Press

Coverage of the Autoware Universe maintainer appointment:

Tech University of Korea (TU Korea ISSUE) · 2026-10-16 — 권우진 학생, 글로벌 자율주행 오픈소스 'Autoware Universe' 국내 유일 공식 Maintainer 선임
Money Today · 2026-10-16 — 한국공학대 학부생이 글로벌 자율주행 주도…오토웨어 메인테이너 선임
Korea University News · 2026-10-16 — 한국공학대 학생 권우진씨, 글로벌 자율주행 오픈소스 국내 유일 공식 Maintainer 선임
Kyosu Shinmun · 2026-10-16 — 한국공학대 권우진, 글로벌 오픈소스 ‘Autoware Universe’ 공식 Maintainer 선임
Unimate Alpha · 2026-10-16 — 한국공학대 권우진 학생, 글로벌 자율주행 오픈소스 'Autoware Universe' 국내 유일 공식 Maintainer 선임
Korean Society of Automotive Engineers (KSAE) member news · 2026-10-07 — [개인회원] 한국공학대학교 권우진 학사과정, Autoware Universe Maintainer 선임

Education

Mechanical & Computer Engineering
Tech University of Korea / 한국공학대학교

Research Experience

Undergraduate Research Intern / Autonomous Driving Team Lead, HuVILab
Tech University of Korea · 2026–Present

Led integration and real-vehicle validation of mapless reverse parking on a Hyundai Ioniq.
Developed Monoscale, metric visual odometry and dense occupancy from cameras and an IMU using ground-plane geometry, evaluated in CARLA and on a 5.2 km real-vehicle dataset.
Coordinated localization, mapping, planning, control, simulation, and vehicle-integration work across the undergraduate research team.

Publications

U. Kwon (sole author), “Auxiliary-Solution-Induced Residual for Nonlinear Iterative Correction with Application to Ballistic Interception,” Proc. 2026 ICROS Annual Conference (ICROS 2026), Daegu, Korea, Jul. 2026, pp. 686–687. [보조해 유도 잔차를 이용한 비선형 반복 보정과 탄도 요격 적용]
DBpia · Project page · Code

Engineering Experience

Race Engineer, Luxon Racing Team · O-NE SUPERRACE Championship, GT-A
Built the car-side GNSS/RTK runtime and the desktop analysis workflow used for collection, monitoring, replay, and segment review. Took the team’s first podium: P3 in GT-A with driver Jinwook Choi at O-NE SUPERRACE Round 5, 2026.
Ballistic solver hardware validation
Integrated the native ARM64 solver on a Rock 5B with live AprilTag tracking and STM32G431 closed-loop actuator control.

Leadership & Recognition

Maintainer, Autoware Universe autoware_carla_interface — announced in KSAE member news (2026-10-07).
Autonomous Driving Team Lead, HuVILab undergraduate research team.
President, 50-member fashion club.
O-NE SUPERRACE 2026 Round 5, GT-A — P3 — race engineer, Luxon Racing Team (driver Jinwook Choi); the team's first podium.
KSAE 2024 Smart e-Mobility Competition, EV Division — Encouragement Prize.