Safety and Stability of Multi-Agent Learning
Dr. Soon-Jo Chung is Bren Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems at Caltech. Prof. Chung is also a Senior Research Scientist of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Professor Chung's research focuses on autonomous vehicles, aerospace robotics, and space autonomous systems, and in particular, on the theory and application of control, estimation, learning-based control and planning, and navigation of autonomous vehicles. He is the recipient of the UIUC Engineering Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, the Arnold Beckman Faculty Fellowship of the U of Illinois Center for Advanced Study, the AFOSR Young Investigator Program (YIP) award, the NSF CAREER award, the 2024 IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Best Paper Award, a 2020 Honorable Mention for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Best Paper Award, the Best Paper Award from the 2015 AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, the Best Paper Award from the 2009 AIAA Infotech at Aerospace Conference, and four best student paper awards. Prof. Chung is a Senior Editor of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and an Associate Editor of the AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. He was a Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, and the Guest Editor of a Special Section on Aerial Swarm Robotics published in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics.