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Soon-Jo Chung
Soon-Jo Chung
Bren Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Senior Research Scientist
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Robotics; Autonomous Vehicles; Drones/Flying Robots; Space Robots; Spacecraft
Profile
Chung leads the Autonomous Robotics and Control Lab at Caltech, an affiliated lab of the Caltech Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies. He works on autonomy, dynamics and control, and robotic perception of various autonomous vehicles and robots including self-driving cars, drones, and spacecraft. His research speciality also includes swarm flight on earth and in space, and has been developing space flight missions for space swarms with JPL. His recent work focuses on safety and robustness of Machine Learning and AI based Control Systems.
Languages Spoken
English;
Faculty Bio
B.S., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1998; S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002; Sc.D., 2007. Associate Professor, Caltech, 2016-18; Professor, 2018-19; Bren Scholar, 2016-19; Bren Professor, 2019-; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Research Scientist, 2016-22; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Senior Research Scientist, 2022-.
Caltech Affiliations
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