RESEARCH INTERESTS

Motion Planning

Computer Vision

Computer Graphics and Computer Games

GPGPU Computing

Geometric Modeling and Processing

EDUCATION

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Ph.D., Computer Science, Aug.2011- Aug.2016

Advisor: Professor Dinesh Manocha

Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

M.S., Computer Science and Engineering, GPA: 4.1/4.3 (major 4.1/4.3) Mar.2005 - Feb.2007

Advisor: Professor Myung-Soo Kim

Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

B.S., Computer Science and Engineering, GPA: 3.72/4.3 (major 3.81/4.3) Mar.2001 - Feb.2005

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Research Assistant, GAMMA Group, Jan.2012-present.

Doing research in the area of motion planning in dynamic environments. The research involves the use of general purpose programming on the GPU(GPGPU) to improve the planning quality and performance.

Disney Research Los Angeles, Glendale, CA, USA

Lab Associate (Intern), May.2015-Aug.2015.

Worked on research in the robot navigation. Developed a learning-based robot motion planning algorithm for the safe navigation in crowds.

Samsung Research America, San Jose, CA, USA

Research Intern, May.2013-Aug.2013.

Worked on research in GPU-accelerated physics computation. Developed a real-time physics simulation engine that detects collisions and computes responses.

Honda Research Institute USA, Mountain View, CA, USA

Research Intern, May.2012-Aug.2012.

Worked on research in GPU-accelerated computer vision system. Developed a machine learning-based pedestrian detection system for vehicles.

Nexon Corporation, Seoul, Korea

Research Engineer, Jan.2009-Jul.2011.

Wokred on research in the areas of Computer graphics and Algorithms for games. Launched a MMORPG video game "Kavatina Story" in Jul.2009. Since then moved to a new project team and researched in Global illumination and other real-time graphics techniques.

LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, Korea

Research Engineer, Digital TV Research Laboratory, Jan.2007-Jan.2009.

Researched and developed acceleration data structure algorithms for Digital TV middleware(DVR, etc.).

Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Research Assistant, 3D Modeling and Processing Lab, Mar.2005-Feb.2007.

Researched in the areas of Computational geometry and Computer aided education. Developed an online mathematics lecturing software to serve as a teaching aid in distance learning.

PUBLICATIONS

"Parallel Motion Planning using Poisson-Disk Sampling",

Chonhyon Park, Jia Pan, Dinesh Manocha

IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), in press.

"Fast and Bounded Probabilistic Collision Detection for High-DOF Robots in Dynamic Environment",

Chonhyon Park, Jae Sung Park, Dinesh Manocha

The 12th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) 2016, San Francisco, CA, Dec 18-20, 2016 (to appear).

"HI Robot: Human Intention-aware Robot Planning for Safe and Efficient Navigation in Crowds",

Chonhyon Park, Jan Ondrej, Max Gilbert, Kyle Freeman, Carol O’Sullivan

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Daejeon, Korea, Oct 9-14, 2016.

"DoraPicker: An Autonomous Picking System for General Objects",

Hao Zhang, Pinxin Long, Dandan Zhou, Zhongfeng Qian, Zheng Wang, Weiwei Wan, Dinesh Manocha, Chonhyon Park, Tommy Hu, Chao Cao, Yibo Chen, Marco Chow, Jia Pan

IEEE 12th Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Fort Worth, TX, Aug 21-24, 2016.

"Robot Motion Planning for Pouring Liquids",

Zherong Pan, Chonhyon Park, Dinesh Manocha

International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) 2016, London, UK, Jun 12-17, 2016.

"Dynamically Balanced and Plausible Trajectory Planning for Human-Like Characters",

Chonhyon Park, Jae Sung Park, Steve Tonneau, Nicolas Mansard, Franck Multon, Julien Pettre, Dinesh Manocha

ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (i3D), Redmond, WA, Feb 27-28, 2016.

"Simulating High-DOF Human-like Agents using Hierarchical Feedback Planner",

Chonhyon Park, Sahil Narang, Andrew P. Best, Dinesh Manocha

The ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST), Beijing, China, Nov 13-15, 2015.

"Cartesian Path Planning in Dynamic Environments using Trajectory Optimization",

Chonhyon Park, Fabian Rabe, Shashank Sharma, Christian Scheurer, Uwe E. Zimmermann, Dinesh Manocha

IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots (HUMANOIDS) 2015, Seoul, Korea, Nov 3-5, 2015.

"A Reachability-based Planner for Sequences of Acyclic Contacts in Cluttered Environments",

Steve Tonneau, Nicolas Mansard, Chonhyon Park, Dinesh Manocha, Franck Multon, Julien Pettre

The International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR) 2015, Sestri Levante, Italy, Sep 12-15, 2015.

"Fast and Dynamically Stable Optimization-based Planning for High-DOF Human-like Robots",

Chonhyon Park, Dinesh Manocha

IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots (HUMANOIDS) 2014, Madrid, Spain, Nov 18-20, 2014.

"Smooth and Dynamically Stable Navigation of Multiple Human-Like Robots",

Chonhyon Park, Dinesh Manocha

The Eleventh International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) 2014, Istanbul, Turkey, Aug 3-5, 2014.

"High-DOF Robots in Dynamic Environments using Incremental Trajectory Optimization",

Chonhyon Park, Jia Pan, Dinesh Manocha

International Journal of Humanoid Robotics (IJHR), Vol. 11, No. 02, 1441001, 2014.

"Poisson-RRT",

Chonhyon Park, Jia Pan, Dinesh Manocha

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2014, Hongkong, China, May 31- June 7, 2014.

"Real-time Optimization-based Planning in Dynamic Environments using GPUs",

Chonhyon Park, Jia Pan, Dinesh Manocha

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 5-10, 2013

"ITOMP: Incremental Trajectory Optimization for Real-time Replanning in Dynamic Environments",

Chonhyon Park, Jia Pan, Dinesh Manocha

International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) 2012, Atibaia, Sao Paulo Brazil, June 25-29, 2012.

"A Hybrid Parallel Solver for Systems of Multivariate Polynomials using CPUs and GPUs",

Cheon-Hyeon Park, Gershon Elber, Ku-Jin Kim, Gye-young Kim, Joon-Kyung Seong

Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 43, No. 11, 1360-1369, 2011.

"CSEE:Communication System for Electronic Education",

Cheon-Hyun Park, Chong-Youn Choi, Tae-Kyun Kim, Young-Taek Oh, Myung-Soo Kim

Distance Learning and the Internet Conference 2007, Bangkok, Thailand, December 12-15, 2007.

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIP

GD/SPM Best Paper Award, Second Prize, Oct.2011

Lecture and research support scholarships for 2 semesters, Mar.2006-Feb.2007.

Merit-based scholarships for 2 semesters, Mar.2005-Feb.2006.

Computer Science Exhibition, First Prize,

School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Aug 2004.

Merit-based scholarships for 5 semesters, Sep.2002-Feb.2005.

PUBLISHED APPLICATION

Us Application No.:2009/0254964

Inventors: Cheon-Hyeon Park, Suk Won Park Assignee: LG ELECTRONIC INC.

"Method for providing record information in a digital broadcast receiver and a digital broadcast receiver for providing record information"

Last updated: Nov 7, 2016