| Sep 23, 2026 | 🎤 Dr. Kim gave a Lightning Talk titled “Generalizable and Scalable Robot System for Precision Agriculture” at NC State Applied AI Symposium. |
| Sep 17, 2026 | ⭐ The National Science Foundation featured research from Dr. Kim’s doctoral studies. (Link) |
| Sep 10, 2026 | 📝 Dr. Kim joined the Editorial Board of IEEE ICRA 2027 as an Associate Editor. |
| Sep 07, 2026 | 🎤 Dr. Kim’s work, “CROP-LO: Crop-Row-OPtimized LiDAR Odometry for Autonomous Navigation and Crop Monitoring in Cornfields,” received a top-5 review score and has been selected for a Lightning Talk at the IROS 2026 workshop “From Innovation to Adoption: Hardware, AI, Policy, and Funding Challenges in Agricultural Robotics.” See you in Pittsburgh! |
| Aug 21, 2026 | 🏆 Dr. Kim is selected as an Aspiring PI for the 2026 National Science Foundation (NSF) Foundational Research in Robotics (FRR) Annual Meeting. See you in Pittsburgh! |
| Aug 17, 2026 | 🤝 Welcome to the FARM Lab, Keller Virgilio! We are excited to have you join us as an undergraduate researcher. |
| Aug 03, 2026 | 🤝 Welcome to the FARM Lab, Tucker Wooten! We are excited to have you join us as an undergraduate researcher. |
| Jul 03, 2026 | 🎤 Dr. Kim gave the invited seminar at Korea University in Seoul, South Korea. |
| Jun 23, 2026 | 📜 The patent “Automated systems and methods for agricultural crop monitoring and sampling,” co-invented by Dr. Kim at Purdue University, was officially issued! |
| May 27, 2026 | 🚀 We are thrilled to announce the official launch of the FARM Lab at NC State University! |
| May 16, 2026 | 🎉 I am honored to join the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at NC State as a tenure-track assistant professor this Fall! |