Research Interests

• Current Interests: Robot Learning,  Reinforcement Learning,  Representation Learning,  Machine Learning,  Robotic Manipulation

• Previous Interests: Self-Driving Cars,  Autonomous Driving,  Decision-Making,  Task and Path Planning,  Navigation,  Robotics

Timeline

• 2022+ Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea

• 2012 M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCSD, La Jolla, San Diego, CA, USA

• 2009 B.E., Systems Science, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Selected Publications

• Samyeul Noh and Kyounghwan An, "Reliable, Robust, and Comprehensive Risk Assessment Framework for Urban Autonomous Driving," Journal of Computational Design and Engineering (JCDE), 9 (5), 2022. [Link]

• Seonghyun Kim, Ingook Jang, Samyeul Noh, and Hyunseok Kim, "Stochastic Policy Optimization with Heuristic Information for Robot Learning," Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2021. [Link]

• Samyeul Noh, "Decision-Making Framework for Autonomous Driving at Road Intersections: Safeguarding Against Collision, Overly Conservative Behavior, and Violation Vehicles," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE), 66 (4), 2019. [Link]

• Samyeul Noh and Kyounghwan An, "Decision-Making Framework for Automated Driving in Highway Environments," IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS), 19 (1), 2018. [Link]

• Samyeul Noh, "Probabilistic Collision Threat Assessment for Autonomous Driving at Road Intersections Inclusive of Vehicles in Violation of Traffic Rules," IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018. [Link]

• Samyeul Noh and Kyounghwan An, "Risk Assessment for Automatic Lane Change Maneuvers on Highways," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),  2017. [Link]

• Samyeul Noh, Kyounghwan An, and Wooyong Han, "High-Level Data Fusion Based Probabilistic Situation Assessment for Highly Automated Driving," IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2015. [Link]

• Samyeul Noh, Kyounghwan An, and Wooyong Han, "Situation Assessment and Behavior Decision for Vehicle/Driver Cooperative Driving in Highway Environments," IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2015. [Link]

• Samyeul Noh, Byungjae Park, Kyounghwan An, Yongbon Koo, and Wooyong Han, "Co-Pilot Agent for Vehicle/Driver Cooperative and Autonomous Driving," ETRI Journal (ETRIJ), 37 (5), 2015. [Link]

• Samyeul Noh, "χ 2 Metric Learning for Nearest Neighbor Classification and its Analysis," IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2012. [Link]

• Seokwon Lee, Samyeul Noh, YongKwun Lee, and Jong Hyeon Park, "Development of Bio-Mimetic Robot Hand using Parallel Mechanisms," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2009. [Link]

Academic Experience

• Reader/Grader, "Mechanics: Statics" in Structural Engineering, UCSD, Winter 2012

• Reader/Grader, "Linear Control System Theory" in Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCSD, Fall 2011

• Reader/Grader, "Mechanics: Dynamics" in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCSD, Spring 2011

• Reader/Grader, "Mechanics: Statics" in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCSD, Winter 2011

• Tutor, "Linear Algebra" and "Calculus" in Systems Science, Osaka University, Apr. 2008–Mar. 2009

Professional Services

Journal Reviewer

• IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine

• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

• IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

• IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

• Knowledge-Based Systems

• Optics Express

Conference Reviewer

• International Conference on Robot Learning 2022, 2024 (CoRL'22,24), 2022, 2024

• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2020 (ICRA'20,25), 2019, 2024

• Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024 (NeurIPS'24), 2024