Sun Woo Kim

Hi there! I’m Sun Woo Kim, a PhD student in Computing Science at Simon Fraser University under the supervision of Professor Xue Bin (Jason) Peng.

Before joining SFU, I was a graphics researcher at the Graphics AI Lab at NCSOFT(later spun-offed to NC AI). I received my M.Sc. in computer science from Seoul National University advised by Professor Jehee Lee. I was fortunate to collaborate closely with Sehoon Ha during that time. I earned my B.S. degree in creative IT Engineering from POSTECH.

I’m excited about all things motion. Whether kinematic, physics-based or even gesture, and whether it’s for human characters, humanoid robots, or even dogs and robot dogs!

I am open to internship opportunities for summer 2027. Please feel free to reach out if you have a relevant opportunity!

Posts

Oct 17, 2026	Phd FOMO
May 16, 2026	Trivia: Body Gesture Generation for Multimodal Conversational Agents
Mar 07, 2026	Animation in a robotics era

Publications

Controllable Single Motion Synthesis

Taehyun Byun, Sunwoo Kim, Minwook Chang, and Sungjoon Choi

Pattern Recognition, 2026

Under Revision

Website

Body Gesture Generation for Multimodal Conversational Agents

Sunwoo Kim, Minwook Chang, Yoonhee Kim, and Jehee Lee

In SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Conference Papers, Tokyo, Japan, 2024

DOI Bib HTML Video

@inproceedings{kim2024bodygesture,
  author = {Kim, Sunwoo and Chang, Minwook and Kim, Yoonhee and Lee, Jehee},
  title = {Body Gesture Generation for Multimodal Conversational Agents},
  year = {2024},
  isbn = {9798400711312},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  doi = {10.1145/3680528.3687648},
  booktitle = {SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Conference Papers},
  articleno = {88},
  numpages = {11},
  keywords = {multi-modality, virtual agents, non-verbal behavior, co-speech gesture synthesis, interactive system, character animation, neural network},
  location = {Tokyo, Japan},
  series = {SA '24},
  url = {https://sites.google.com/view/bodygesture4multimodal},
}

Towards Natural Prosthetic Hand Gestures: A Common-Rig and Diffusion Inpainting Pipeline

Seungyup Ka, Taemoon Jeong, Sunwoo Kim, Sankalp Yamsani, and 2 more authors

In 2024 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2024

DOI HTML
Human Motion Control of Quadrupedal Robots using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Sunwoo Kim, Maks Sorokin, Jehee Lee, and Sehoon Ha

In Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, Jun 2022

HTML Video Blog

Trivia

I’m going to be a dad soon. Can’t wait to meet you, my little girl!
Personal take: Eternal Return is an absolute gem.
I spent the fall semester of 2015 as an exchange student at Stony Brook University in New York.
I spent July 2015 in Rome as an exchange student at RISD Rome, sketching the city’s beautiful historic buildings.