<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en"><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.10.0">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://tikatoka.github.io/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://tikatoka.github.io/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" hreflang="en" /><updated>2026-04-30T09:17:59+00:00</updated><id>https://tikatoka.github.io/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Joochan Kim</title><subtitle>Joochan Kim — incoming PhD student at Purdue (Fall 2026), research intern at KIST. Working on Embodied AI, Vision-Language-Action models, and multimodal AI.</subtitle><author><name>Joochan Kim</name></author><entry><title type="html">Hello, world</title><link href="https://tikatoka.github.io/blog/2026/04/30/welcome/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Hello, world" /><published>2026-04-30T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-04-30T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://tikatoka.github.io/blog/2026/04/30/welcome</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://tikatoka.github.io/blog/2026/04/30/welcome/"><![CDATA[<p>Welcome! I’m starting this blog as a place to jot down notes about my research, papers I’m reading, and occasional thoughts on embodied AI and multimodal models.</p>

<h2 id="what-to-expect">What to expect</h2>

<ul>
  <li><strong>Research notes</strong> — short summaries of papers I find interesting.</li>
  <li><strong>Project updates</strong> — progress on things I’m working on.</li>
  <li><strong>Occasional opinions</strong> — half-baked ideas that may turn into projects.</li>
</ul>

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<div class="language-python highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">hello</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">name</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="nb">str</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">-&gt;</span> <span class="nb">str</span><span class="p">:</span>
    <span class="k">return</span> <span class="sa">f</span><span class="s">"Hello, </span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">name</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s">!"</span>

<span class="k">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">hello</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"world"</span><span class="p">))</span>
</code></pre></div></div>

<p>Thanks for reading.</p>]]></content><author><name>Joochan Kim</name></author><category term="meta" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A quick note on starting this blog.]]></summary></entry></feed>