Jean Hyaejin Oh

Jean Hyaejin Oh is an Associate Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, where she leads the Bot Intelligence Group. Her research focuses on developing persistent robots capable of coexisting with humans through advances in AI, language understanding, multimodal perception, and navigation systems. She investigates how robots can interpret verbal commands, describe environments, generate semantic navigation plans, and explain their actions using natural language.

Her work spans autonomous systems, human-robot interaction, computer vision, and machine learning, with emphasis on translating information between vision, language, and planning. Current projects include:

• DARPA ALIAS program (co-PI): Developing cockpit automation through semantic perception and pilot observation learning
• ARL RCTA program (PI): Intelligence architecture for language-guided robot navigation
• US DoD-Korea MOTIE collaboration (co-PI): Disaster response robotics using social media data

Awards include:

• Best Cognitive Robotics Paper Award at ICRA 2015

She advises 10 PhD students and 1 master's student, with research outputs spanning robotic art, trajectory prediction, 3D vision, embodied AI, and autonomous exploration. Her recent publications demonstrate strong interdisciplinary focus across robotics, computer vision, and human-centered AI.