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