About Me…

Name: Jun-young Kwak (곽준영, 郭俊榮)

School: University of Southern California (USC)
Affiliation: TEAMCORE research group, Computer Science Department, Viterbi School of Engineering
Research interests: Multiagent Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Multi-objective Optimization, Sequential Decision Making Under Uncertainty, Multiagent Planning & Learning, etc.

Office Address: 3737 Watt Way, PHE 514, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Office Phone: 213-740-9560
Email address: junyounk at usc dot edu & junyounk at cs dot cmu dot edu

For more details, please see my Curriculum Vitae (CV) and the Research Project & Publication pages.

I am a PhD student at Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, and one of USC Annenberg Fellows. I am doing research on multiagent decision making in sustainability, specifically focusing on multi-objective optimization in energy domains, sequential decision making under uncertainty, and human-agent interaction/negotiation. I am also a member of the TEAMCORE research group at USC led by Professor Milind Tambe, my current advisor. Before joining USC, I worked as a Robotics Programmer at Agent Dynamics, Inc. and a Visiting Scholar at The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. I was doing research on multi-agent coordination and control for unmanned systems, specifically the ACCAST system (Advanced Command and Control of Autonomous System Teams) and the USAR (Urban Search And Rescue) projects. The ACCAST project is supported by DoD. I was mainly working with Professor Katia Sycara, Paul Scerri and Sean R. Owens at Intelligent Software Agents Lab, CMU RI. Before starting to work, I did research on path planning and rough terrain navigation for my Master’s degree at CMU RI. This project was a part of Mars Technology Program supported by JPL, NASA. My research included planning algorithms under uncertainty, extending particle RRT, identifying the optimal vehicle models and reducing the execution errors using various learning techniques. I worked with Professor Reid Simmons.

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