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Contact Information

Name Jihwan (Ben) Shin
Professional Title MSc Robotics, Systems and Control @ ETH Zürich
Email jishin@student.ethz.ch
Phone +41 79 796 03 27

Experience

  • 2025 -

    Zürich, CH

    Motion Control Team Leader
    NomadZ (Robot Football Team)
    Team Leader (2026–Present), Member (2025–2026)
    • Developing imitation reinforcement learning algorithm policies for the Booster K1 humanoid robot
    • Generating motion data from MoCap datasets and in-house video captures
  • 2022 - 2025

    Oxford, UK

    Co-leader
    OxRAM Robotics Society (Quadruped Team)
    Co-leader (2023–2025), Member (2022–2023)
    • Managed a team of 7 members to create a 3D-printed 12-DoF quadruped robot
    • Designed chassis and leg components of the robot using Fusion 360
    • Created the URDF of the robot and implemented the open-loop controls on ROS2
  • 2024 - 2024

    Oxford, UK

    Summer Research Intern
    Oxford Robotics Institute — DRS-C Lab
    • Supervised by Prof. Ioannis Havoutis and funded by the EPSRC Vacation Internships scheme
    • Built a high-level control framework for a 4-DoF 3 Finger Hand robot using ROS2 Control and micro-ROS
    • Identified and suggested improvements to the tendon-based hardware design of the robot hand

Education

  • 2025 -

    Zürich, CH

    MSc Robotics, Systems and Control
    ETH Zürich
    • Courses: Probabilistic Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Robot Dynamics, Planning and Decision Making for Autonomous Robots, Computational Models of Motion, 3D Vision, Recursive Estimation
    • 3D Vision Project (ongoing): Real-to-Sim Transfer of Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation Tasks in Isaac Sim
    • Semester Project (ongoing): Human-Object Interaction Motion Retargeting with Optimisation and RL. Supervised by RSL (Robotic Systems Lab) — Adria Lopez, Matthias Heyrman, Junzhe He
  • 2022 - 2025

    Oxford, UK

    BA Engineering Science
    University of Oxford
    • Grade: First Class (Final Degree), Distinction (Qualifying)
    • Option Courses: Information Engineering Systems, Control Systems, Software Engineering, Biomechanics, Machine Learning
    • 3rd Year Group Design Project: Multiagent Autonomous Drone System for Landmine Detection — winner of the university Gibbs prize for the best project in year group
  • 2019 - 2022

    Singapore, SG

    International Baccalaureate Diploma
    United World College of South East Asia
    • Higher Level: Mathematics Analysis & Approaches (7/7), Physics (7/7), Chemistry (7/7)
    • Standard Level: English Language & Literature (7/7), Economics (7/7), Chinese Ab Initio (7/7)
    • Awarded Physics Academic Award (1st of all Physics students)

Awards

  • 2024
    Casberd Scholarship
    St. John's College, University of Oxford

    Awarded for excelling in subject examinations (2023 and 2024).

Skills

Programming: Python, C++, MATLAB
Frameworks: ROS2, Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, CasADi

Languages

English : Native
Korean : Native
Mandarin Chinese : Limited working proficiency