I am a Postdoctoral Associate in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT, where I work with Luca Carlone in the SPARK Lab. My research focuses on developing robust algorithms for robot perception, state estimation, and lifelong mapping that enable long-term autonomy in real-world environments.

I obtained my Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from KAIST, where I was fortunate to work with Hyun Myung in the Urban Robotics Laboratory. During my graduate studies, I was a visiting scholar at StachnissLab at the University of Bonn, working with Cyrill Stachniss, and a research intern at NAVER LABS.

I am passionate about open-source research and actively contribute to the robotics community through well-documented, reproducible code. Check out my GitHub for various projects on SLAM, point cloud processing, and robust perception.

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News

Jan. 26 🎤 Invited to CES 2026 in Las Vegas
Dec. 25 📝🦾 Multi-Mapcher is accepted to T-IV
Dec. 25 📝🦾 My first T-RO paper has been accepted
Aug. 25 📝🏆 VGGT-SLAM has been accepted in NeurIPS!
Aug. 25 📝🦾 LVI-Q is accepted to RA-L

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Contact

shapelim at mit dot edu