[Welcome] New faculty member
2019.08.19Prof.Jeong hwan Jeon has joined the School of ECE (EE Track) as of Aug.16, 2019.
Greeting from professor
Dr. Jeon’s areas of expertise lie in the fields of control theory, motion planning, optimization methods, robotics, autonomous systems, and future mobility including self-driving cars. His current focus of research is on the design, development, and deployment of future mobility system and many of its components with maximized safety and efficiency, ultimately aiming for zero traffic fatality.
Before joining UNIST, he was a Principal Research Scientist (2018 to 2019) and a Senior Research Scientist (2015 to 2018) at nuTonomy (a startup focused on self-driving technology, an Aptiv company since its acquisition by Delphi/Aptiv in 2017). He received S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 2009 and 2015 respectively. He was a recipient of STX Scholarship for Graduate Studies between 2007 and 2012.