Jean Oh

Jean Oh is an Associate Research Professor at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and head of the roBot Intelligence Group (BIG). Jean's research focuses on building Creative Physical AI technologies that remind us of "what makes us human," promoting human values such as safety, creativity, and compassion across diverse domains including self-driving vehicles, safe aviation, and arts. Jean's work on social robot navigation and creative robotics has won several best paper awards at major robotics conferences including ICRA and IROS, and has been featured in media worldwide including New York Times and the Telegraph. Jean has been leading a series of interdisciplinary events on AI/Robotics and Arts at Humanoids'25, ICRA'25, NeurIPS'24, NeurIPS'23, RSS'21, SIGGRAPH'21 and CVPR'21. Jean is currently Co-Chair of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Cognitive Robotics.

Currently, I am leading the perception and the learning tasks for the DARPA Aircrew-Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) program (co-PI) that aims to bring intelligence to cockpits through semantic perception and learning new skills from observing experienced pilots. I am also a PI on the intelligence architecture subtask of the ARL RCTA program where my team’s work on language understanding on robot navigation won the Best Cognitive Robotics Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in 2015. My newest project is the US DoD – Korea MOTIE (co-PI) collaboration on robotics technologies for disaster response, where I will be leading the semantic map construction by leveraging text data from social media and crowdsourcing.