Faculty
Jongeun Choi
Professor
School of Mechanical EngineeringDepartment of Artificial Intelligence
Department of Mobility Systems Engineering
Yonsei University
Mailing address: Room C319
50 Yonsei Ro, Seodaemun Gu
Seoul 03722, South Korea
Phone: (82) 02-2123-2813
Fax: (82) 02-312-2159
E-mail: jongeunchoi at yonsei dot ac dot kr
Jongeun Choi received the B.S. degree in mechanical design and production engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, in 1998, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. He is a Professor with the School of Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University. In 2023, he was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. From 2019 to 2023, he served as the Chairperson of the Department of Vehicle Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, funded by Hyundai Motor Company. From 2020 to 2024, he was affiliated with the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Yonsei University. Prior to joining Yonsei University, he worked for ten years as an Associate Professor from 2012 to 2016 and an Assistant Professor from 2006 to 2012, with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and also with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University. His current research interests include machine learning, systems and control, deep reinforcement learning, and Bayesian methods with applications to robotics, autonomous driving, human and robot interaction, and AI in healthcare. He serves as a Senior Editor of the International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems (IJCAS) from 2023. He also served as a Guest Editor with a two-year term (2021 and 2022) for the IEEE/ASME TMECH/AIM Focused Section on Emerging Topics. He co-edited special issues on Stochastic Models, Control, and Algorithms in Robotics in Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control (JDSMC), from 2014 to 2015. He served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation letters (RA-L), in 2018, JDSMC during 2014-2019, and International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing (IJPEM) during 2017-2018. He served as a Senior Editor for Ubiquitous Robots (UR), in 2020 and as an Associate Editor for 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). He received the Best Paper Award at the RSS 2023 Workshop on Symmetries in Robot Learning, in 2023, and at the 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), in 2015. His papers were finalists for the Best Student Paper Award at the 24th American Control Conference (ACC), in 2005, and the Dynamic System and Control Conference (DSCC), in 2011 and 2012. He was a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, in 2009. He is a member of ASME and IEEE.