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4800 Oak Grove Drive

Pasadena, CA 91109

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347J - Perception Systems

Sunggoo Jung

Postdoctoral Fellow

Biography

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Education

Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST), 2020

Thesis title: A Deep Reinforcement Learning based Motion Planner for the Exploration of Unknown Environments with an Aerial Robot

Professional Experience

Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA, 2022–Present
Senior Research Scientist, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea, 2020–2022
Visiting Student Researcher, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA, 2019 (Jan - Sep)

Research Interests

Optimal Controller/Planner for Agile Flight
Reinforcement Learning based Planner
Unknown Area Exploration

Awards

Minister’s (Science and ICT) award, Korea, 2019
2^nd place, member of CoSTAR scout team, DARPA Subterranean Challenge, Tunnel Circuit, 2019
2^nd Prize, IEEE/RSJ IROS Indoor Drone Challenge, Spain, 2018
1^st Prize, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems Indoor Drone Challenge, 2016

Publications

2021

Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi, et al., "NeBula: Quest for Robotic Autonomy in Challenging Environments; TEAM CoSTAR at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge," Journal of Field Robotics, 21 March 2021.