Understanding human navigation has been an important research topic for a long time. Researchers in the subfields of computing, such as computer graphics and computer vision, as well as those outside of computing, such as cognitive science, civil engineering, and robotics, are actively investigating the problem. It has a wide range of applications, including architectural design, urban planning, transportation engineering, crowd management, socially compliant robot navigation, pandemic response, and entertainment. This talk will introduce a selected recent (2020-2023) works of the project team.

Biography

Sejong Yoon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at The College of New Jersey. His research goal is to fill in the gap between individual human decision-making process and the group-level behavior, which is typically based on distributed or decentralized individual decisions. Over the span of 15 years, he has authored or co-authored more than 30 peer-reviewed publications in different areas of artificial intelligence to accomplish the research agenda. Before joining TCNJ in 2016, he earned his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at Rutgers University. He also conducted research in biomedical informatics for his Master’s degree at Sogang University. He worked at various places in both industry and government sectors, including Siemens, LG CNS, and the Federal Government of Ethiopia.