Hyunyoung Jung

I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Robotics at Georgia Tech, advised by Dr. Sehoon Ha and working closely with Dr. Hae-Won Park. Before my Ph.D., I received my Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech and Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering at Seoul National University.

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Research

My research goal is to develop learning-based control algorithms that enable robust, agile and interactive behaviors in human-centered environments. Currently, I am working on sim-to-real transfer for a humanoid robot by leveraging real-world data.

Publications and Preprints


(*: equal contribution)
PreCi: Pre-training and Continual Improvement of Humanoid Locomotion via Model-Assumption-based Regularization
Hyunyoung Jung*, Zhaoyuan Gu*, Ye Zhao, Hae-Won Park, Sehoon Ha
Under Review, 2024
video / Paper

We introduce a learning framework for effectively training a humanoid locomotion policy that imitates the behavior of a model-based controller while extending its capabilities to handle more complex locomotion tasks.

CrossLoco: Human Motion Driven Control of Legged Robots via Guided Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning
Tianyu Li, Hyunyoung Jung, Matthew Gombolay, Yong Kwon Cho, Sehoon Ha
ICLR, 2024
project page / video / arXiv / paper

We introduce a guided unsupervised reinforcement learning framework that simultaneously learns robot skills and their correspondence to human motions.

Imitating and Finetuning Model Predictive Control for Robust and Symmetric Quadrupedal Locomotion
Donghoon Youm*, Hyunyoung Jung*, Hyeongjun Kim, Jemin Hwangbo,
Hae-Won Park, Sehoon Ha
RA-L, 2023
project page / video / arXiv

We propose a learning framework that can bridge between model-based and learning-based approaches for legged robot control by imitating expert model predictive control (MPC) and fine-tuning the pre-trained policy with reinforcement learning.

Education


Georgia Institute of Technology

Ph.D. in Robotics
Aug. 2024 - Present

Georgia Institute of Technology

M.S in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Aug. 2022 - May. 2024

Seoul National University

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering
Mar. 2016 - Aug. 2022

Work and Teaching Experiences


CS 8803 Deep Reinforcment Learning for Intel. Control

Teaching Asistant
Georgia Institute of Technology
Spring 2024

CS 3451 Computer Graphics

Teaching Asistant
Georgia Institute of Technology
Spring 2023

Saige Research

Research Intern
Apr. 2021 - Dec. 2021

Samsung Electronics

Student Intern
Jan. 2021 - Feb. 2021

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