Hello, and welcome to my website.
My name is Samyeul Noh. I am a Principal Researcher at ETRI, and also a PhD Student at KAIST advised by Hyun Myung. My research interests lie in exploring robot autonomy and robot intelligence at the intersection of artificial intelligence and robotics. Currently, I am interested in robot learning, reinforcement learning, and representation learning.
Contact
Email: samuel@etri.re.kr (official) / samuel@kaist.ac.kr (official) / samyeul.noh@gmail.com (personal)
Current Interests: Robot Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Representation Learning, Robotic Manipulation, Humanoid
Previous Interests: Self-Driving Cars, Autonomous Driving, Decision-Making, Task and Path Planning, Navigation, Robotics
2022+ Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea
2018 Principal Investigator, ETRI, Daejeon, South Korea
2012+ Researcher / Senior Researcher / Principal Researcher, ETRI, Daejeon, South Korea
2012 M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCSD, La Jolla, San Diego, CA, USA
2009 Research Scientist, KIST, Seoul, South Korea
2009 B.E., Systems Science, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
where ETRI and KIST are national research institutes in South Korea.
Samyeul Noh, Wooju Lee, and Hyun Myung*, "Sample-Efficient and Occlusion-Robust Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation via Multimodal Fusion Dualization and Representation Normalization," Neural Networks, 18, 2025. [Link]
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*, 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]
A full list of publications is available at [Publications].
Robot Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning, ETRI, 2020–Present
Intelligent Interaction, ETRI, 2019
Video Description, ETRI, 2018
Autonomous Driving (Self-Driving Car), ETRI, 2012–2017
Distance Metric Learning, UCSD, Sep. 2011–Mar. 2012
Biomimetic Robotic Hand Development and Control, KIST, May 2009–Nov. 2009
Parallel Robotic Mechanism Planning and Control, Osaka University, Apr. 2008–Mar. 2009
Inverted Pendulum Control, Osaka University, Apr. 2008–Jul. 2008
Vision-Based Robotic Manipulation, Osaka University, Apr. 2008–Jul. 2008
Project details are available at [Research].
ETRI Funding (PI: Samyeul Noh), "Video Description," $420,000 for 12 months, 2018
Best Paper Award, Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, Jan. 2024
Best Research Achievement Award (Paper Division), ETRI, Apr. 2021
Best Presentation Award, Institute of Embedded Engineering of Korea, Nov. 2017
Best Presentation Award, Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers, Dec. 2013
Government-Sponsored Full Scholarship, Korean and Japanese governments, Mar. 2004–Mar. 2009
Chungcheong Today, Published an article about the future of autonomous driving with reinforcement learning technology, Apr. 2021
Journal Editor
ETRI Journal
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
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024 (NeurIPS'24), 2024
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
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