REEL 01UAV · LIVE TRACKING
Autonomous insulator wash run
A drone locks onto live power-line insulators and pressure-washes them — the vision stack shipped cloud-to-embedded at Qii.ai.
Dr. Henry Kang
AI scientist · builder · solo founder — twelve years of research, products, wrecks and lessons, mapped as one voyage.
1,600+ citationsUS patentYC S2587 reposPh.D. · U. of Manitoba
01 // THE VOYAGE
Twelve years, four reinventions
Business student → engineer → scientist → builder. Six stations on the line — the rings passing outside the window.
STATION 01·2014
Business, not code — Soongsil · Georgia State
The starting coordinates: markets before machines.
STATION 02·2016// COURSE CORRECTION
M.S. Software, top of class
The first hard turn — from markets into machine code.
STATION 03·2017–22// COURSE CORRECTION
Ph.D. — autonomous drones & vision, U. of Manitoba
Crack-segmentation and UAV inspection research that became the field's reference points.
485 · 477 · 330 citationsUS patent 12,315,238STATION 04·2022–23// COURSE CORRECTION
AI Team Lead — Qii.ai
Research walks out of the lab and onto real infrastructure.
Royal Canadian Navy challenge win6 gov & industry missionsSTATION 05·2023–24
Senior AI Scientist — Ericsson
Digital humans, generative video, deepfake detection, super-resolution.
STATION 06·2024–// COURSE CORRECTION
Founder · builder · lecturer — current position
UStechlab · GetPickle (YC S25) · Kookmin PBL lecturer · 13 live research topics with students.
GetPickle — YC S2513 research topicsSteam-bound game
02 // RESEARCH
A constellation of published work
In the galaxy above, every paper is a star sized by its citations. Down here, the records.
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US patent (12,315,238)
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Active topics, 2026 lab
03 // FIELD FOOTAGE
Missions, on tape
AI for civil infrastructure and industrial inspection — raw deployment footage, not slideware.
REEL 02SEGMENTATION · FIELD DEPLOY
Interactive defect segmentation
Click-to-segment insulator inspection on real field footage — the attention encoder–decoder research line (326 citations), out of the lab.
REEL 03INDUSTRIAL CV · PRODUCTION
Tire X-ray damage detection
Defect detection running on a live tire X-ray inspection line — operations, not a paper demo.
04 // MISSION DEBRIEF
Ventures, wrecks, and what survived re-entry
The honest section. Every solo venture gets a captain's-log entry — what launched, what burned up, what was recovered.
05 // BUILDS
Shipped with my AI crew
The off-duty bay — games, generative media and apps. One human, a fleet of agents.
CUT 01GODOT · STEAM-BOUND
Sealbound — trailer
Occult roguelite card-battler headed for Steam — art, music and code shipped by one person and a fleet of agents.
CUT 02GEN 3D · GAME CONTENT
Crimson Dragoon
Game-ready mech character content straight from a generative pipeline.
CUT 03GEN VIDEO · PIXEL ART
Mia — a generative short
A pixel-art mystery short, written and animated end-to-end with generative models.
STILL 04GODOT · IN-GAME
Sealbound — boss battle
Nyarlathotep boss fight in-engine — the deck-and-board UI as it plays.
3D · generative
Moonstone World
Generative 3D worlds and characters.
Godot · Steam
Sealbound
Occult roguelite card-battler — Steam release in prep.
on-device LLM
Character Chat PWA
Character chat running fully on-device.
mobile · arXiv 2026
Pocket RAG
Offline retrieval-augmented first-aid guidance.
tooling · games
Sprite Pipeline
Video-to-sprite-sheet pipeline for game animation.
YC S25
GetPickle
0.5 ms real-time AI avatar streaming — $700K seed.
TOUCHDOWN CONFIRMED · OUTPOST 06
06 // SIGNAL
Open a channel
Research collaboration, product ideas, or a hard problem worth a voyage — transmissions welcome.
donghok4@gmail.com© 2026 DR. HENRY KANG · TRANSMISSION ENDS_