Scholar
Yoonchang Sung
Google Scholar ID: uaSMq7UAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, NTU Singapore
Citations & Impact
Citations
422
H-index
13
i10-index
14
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- To serve as a Junior Co-chair for the IEEE R&A Society Technical Committee on Multi-Robot Systems in 2025; Associate Editor for ICRA 2026; Published preprint 'ROTATE: Regret-driven Open-ended Training for Ad Hoc Teamwork' in May 2025; Gave talks at the Pinto group at New York University, LIS group at MIT, and Wong group at Northeastern University in 2025.
Research Experience
- Currently an Assistant Professor in the College of Computing and Data Science at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Previously a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas at Austin and MIT CSAIL.
Education
- Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in 2019, under Prof. Pratap Tokekar; Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Texas at Austin (hosted by Prof. Peter Stone) and MIT CSAIL (hosted by Prof. Tomás Lozano-Pérez and Prof. Leslie Pack Kaelbling).
Background
- Research Interests: Developing intelligent robots capable of efficient planning, learning from past experiences, and reasoning about their decisions and interactions with other agents. Specialization: Designing algorithms for task and motion planning, as well as multi-robot systems.
Miscellany
- Favorite quote from David Blackwell: 'Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been... I'm interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it.'