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Kazuki Shin

Kazuki Shin

Co‑founder at Kaigo Health; ex‑NVIDIA AV perception & robotics researcher

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San Francisco, California, United States
Joined October 2025
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Summary

Robotics and manipulation researcher with strong hands‑on systems work: Kazuki contributed to KIMLAB projects (dual‑arm manipulation, PAPRAS plug‑and‑play arm, soft robotic skin) and appears across lab demos, GitHub repositories, and conference papers. His work spans hardware integration, ROS-based codebases, and applied manipulation research. illinois+2
Applied AV perception and ML engineer: Listed as AV Perception @NVIDIA and has publications and projects related to pedestrian trajectory prediction and perception for autonomous systems, indicating experience building perception models and evaluation for safety‑critical AV tasks. google+1
Open‑source and course project builder: Maintains a public GitHub with course and research projects (LIDAR Monte Carlo path planning, Snapbot / THORMANG manipulation projects, multiple repositories demonstrating ROS, planning, and perception work), showing practical engineering and reproducible research practices. github+1
Transitioning from research/engineering to startup founder: Public posts and profile indicate he co‑founded Kaigo Health (YC F25) after industry research roles, motivated by applying AI/robotics background to caregiving/healthcare-at-home products. linkedin+1

Work

Education

Projects

Writing

Low‑Cost and Easy‑to‑Build Soft Robotic Skin for Safe and Contact‑Rich Human–Robot Collaboration

January 1, 2024

Paper describing a low‑cost soft robotic skin that enables safer contact‑rich human–robot collaboration; includes design and evaluation of the sensor skin and integration with robotic manipulators.

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PAPRAS: Plug‑and‑play robotic arm system

January 1, 2023

ArXiv preprint and project describing PAPRAS — a plug‑and‑play robotic arm system for rapid deployment and research; associated with KIMLAB and open‑source repository.

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Interpretable Multi‑Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction using Social GAN / Social GCNN

January 1, 2021

Work on multi‑pedestrian trajectory prediction for autonomous systems that interact with crowds, contributing to AV perception and trajectory forecasting research.

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Hobbies

Photography — runway / fashion photography (credited as runway photographer at NYFW SS25; featured mentions linking to ELLE Magazine coverage in social posts). thenetwork+1

Notes

AKAman Kishoresaid that if they had to recommend someone for a cutting-edge robotics project,
KSKazuki Shin
would be one of their first choices.

Feb 18, 2026