Timothy H. Chung MC 104-44, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA Email: timothyc@caltech.edu Phone: 626-221-0251 (cell) Web: http://robotics.caltech.edu/ timothyc EDUCATION Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering May 2007 Thesis: Intelligent Information Gathering: Using Control for Sensing and Decision Making M.S., Mechanical Engineering June 2002 B.S., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering May 2001 Advisor: Dr. Raffaello D Andrea RESEARCH Research Assistant, Mechanical Engineering Sept 2001 - June 2007 Investigating probabilistic search model for visual detection and search tasks Formulating sequential decision-making methods for behavior-based objectives Constructed observability-based state estimation approaches Developing methods for path-planning of multi-agent systems using distributed sensing, sensor fusion and classification Investigated distributed estimation and applications of mobile sensor networks Examined the performance of sensor fusion algorithms in the presence of communication constraints Supervised the design and production of a hopping robot project Big Red RoboCup Team August 2000 - August 2001 Advisor: Dr. Raffaello D Andrea Mechanical and Systems Team member Designed and implemented mechanical design of vertical ball-dribbling bars Facilitated efficient communication between electrical, mechanical, vision and software sub-teams 1 of 5
TEACHING & MENTORING EXPERIENCES Introduction to Robot Navigation, Teaching Assistant Winter 2007 Department of Mechanical Engineering Co-developed laboratory experiments for design and implementation of motion planning algorithms using robotic platforms Graphical User Interface Design, Research mentor Summer 2006 Guided a high school volunteer student in designing and developing a GUI for a human-in-the-loop interface to a mobile multi-robot testbed Robotics Outreach Middle-school Conference, Project mentor November 2005 Assisted two middle school students in poster project design of underwater robot for participation in 2005 Caltech Robotics Middle school Conference Active Sensing Project, Research mentor April 2005 - Fall 2006 Supervising two junior graduate students in development and implementation of active sensing strategies on a mobile multi-robot testbed Art Center, College of Design, Pasadena, California Lecture on Robotics, Guest Lecturer November 2005 Introduction to Robotics Prepared and presented an introduction to multi-robot systems to non-technical students Introduction to Control Technologies, Teaching Assistant Spring 2003 Department of Control and Dynamical Systems Managed two teams for controller design and testing on multi-vehicle testbed Introduction to Control of Physical Systems, Teaching Assistant Fall 2003 Department of Control and Dynamical Systems Co-facilitated office hours, grading and lessons for introductory classical controls class Multi-agent Fault-Tolerance Project, Research mentor April-Sept 2005 Supervising junior graduate student in design and development of fault-tolerance strategies for distributed mobile sensing agents Freshmen Summer Institute, Research mentor Summer 2003 Supervised two incoming freshmen students examine uncertainty characteristics of sonar and gyro sensors Hopper Robot Project, Design Mentor Spring 2002 Advised two undergraduate students in robot self-righting mechanism design, production and testing 2 of 5
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California Flight Software Test Developer, co-op internship June 1999 - December 1999 Cassini-Huygens Mission, Command and Data Subsystem, Flight Software Group Tested Emergency RAM software and developed efficient and standardized regression testing procedures Produced high- and low-level reference and presentation documentation for the Emergency RAM software Hardware Layout Designer January 1999 - June 1999 Department of Astronomy, Infrared Group Designed layout of system monitoring electronics for the Faint Object infrared CAmera for the SOFIA Telescope (FORCAST) Investigated most efficient electronic devices for data retrieval, analysis and monitoring Communication Software Developer September 1998 - January 1999 Department of Astronomy, Infrared Group Developed communication software for FORCAST Designed interactive data-retrieval program for Internet-based communication PUBLICATIONS [1] T.H. Chung and J.W. Burdick, Multi-agent Probabilistic Search in a Sequential Decisiontheoretic Framework, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Pasadena, California 2008, submitted. [2] T.H. Chung and J.W. Burdick, A Decision-Making Framework for Control Strategies in Probabilistic Search, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Roma, Italy, April 2007. [3] T.H. Chung, J.W. Burdick, and R.M. Murray, A Decentralized Motion Coordination Strategy for Dynamic Target Tracking, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Orlando, FL, April 2006. [4] V. Gupta, T.H. Chung, B. Hassibi and R. M. Murray, On a Stochastic Sensor Selection Algorithm with Applications in Sensor Scheduling and Sensor Coverage, Automatica. Vol. 42, No. 2, February 2006, Pages: 251-260 [5] V. Gupta, T.H. Chung, B. Hassibi, R.M. Murray, On a Stochastic Algorithm for Sensor Scheduling, 16th IFAC World Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2005. [6] Y. Mostofi, T.H. Chung, R.M. Murray and J.W. Burdick, Communication and Sensing Trade- Offs in Decentralized Mobile Sensor Networks: A Cross-Layer Design Approach, 2005 International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, Los Angeles, California, April 2005. 3 of 5
[7] T.H. Chung, V. Gupta, J.W. Burdick and R.M. Murray, On a Decentralized Active Sensing Strategy using Mobile Sensor Platforms in a Network, 2004 IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control, Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas, December 2004. [8] V. Gupta, T. Chung, B. Hassibi and R. M. Murray, Sensor Scheduling Algorithms Requiring Limited Computation, 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Montreal, Canada, May 2004. [9] T. Chung, V. Gupta, B. Hassibi, J. Burdick and R. M. Murray, Scheduling for Distributed Sensor Networks with Single Sensor Measurements per Time Step, 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, LA, April 2004. [10] T. Chung, L. Cremean, W.B. Dunbar, Z. Jin, E. Klavins, D. Moore, A. Tiwari, D. van Gogh and S. Waydo, A Platform for Cooperative and Coordinated Control of Multiple Vehicles: The Caltech Multi-Vehicle Wireless Testbed, 2002 Cooperative Control and Optimization, Gainesville, FL, December, 2002. HONORS AND AWARDS Asian American Architects and Engineers Foundation Award 2007 Asian American Architects and Engineers Foundation Bruce J. Heim Foundation Scholarship 2005 American Society of Mechanical Engineers KASF Chair Scholarship 2005 Korean-American Scholarship Foundation Elisabeth M. And Winchell M. Parsons Scholarship 2004-2005 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Auxiliary ISA Educational Foundation Scholarship 2003 Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society RoboCup Third Place Winners 2001 F-180 League, Seattle, USA Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Scholarship 2001 National Space Club Gates Millenium Scholars 2000-2001 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation NASA Space Grant 1998, 2001 New York Space Grant Consortium 4 of 5
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Professional Organizations American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Student Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Member Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Student Member Paper Reviews IEEE Transactions on Robotics IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation IEEE Conference on Decision and Control IEEE American Control Conference IFAC World Congress Latin-American Congress on Automatic Control (CLCA) REFERENCES Dr. Joel Burdick Mechanical Engineering 319 Thomas, M/C 104-44 Phone: 626-395-4139 Fax: 626-583-4963 Email: jwb@robotics.caltech.edu Dr. Doug MacMynowski Control and Dynamical Systems 128 Steele, M/C 107-81 Phone: 626-395-3365 Email: macmardg@cds.caltech.edu Dr. Domitilla Del Vecchio University of Michigan Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 4215 EECS Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA Phone: 734-764-6581 Fax: 734-763-8041 Email: ddv@eecs.umich.edu Dr. Richard Murray Control and Dynamical Systems 109 Steele, M/C 107-81 Phone: 626-395-6460 Email: murray@cds.caltech.edu Dr. Michael Dickinson Bioengineering 205 Keck Labs, M/C 138-78 Phone: 626-395-5775 Email: flyman@caltech.edu 5 of 5