Work and Research Experience

• Executive Vice President, Land Systems Business Group, Hanwha Aerospace, Nov 2022 - Present
  Leading Hanwha Aerospace’s endeavors of developing unmanned ground vehicles, and of stepping up the company’s game to become a global defense solution provider.
• Executive Vice President, Hanwha Defense, Sep 2021 - Oct 2022
  Head of Dept. of Robotics and Autonomous Systems Development, took initiatives, led the way, and put a dent in the way the company has been doing the business.
• Founder CEO, Atlas Robotics Inc., May 2018 - Jul 2021
  Worked on a technology stack for autonomous mobility based on shared autonomy.
• Senior Director, Hyperloop One (now Virgin Hyperloop), Jun 2017 - Apr 2018
  Led the efforts to develop sensing and perception stacks, and mission-critical systems for an unconventional mass-transport system – Hyperloop One System.
• Engineering Manager, Autel Robotics, Aug 2016 - Jun 2017
  Led a team of engineers and delivered a target tracking pipeline for consumer-grade, quadropter drones.
• Senior Scientist, Special Project Group, Apple Inc, Nov 2014 - Jul 2016
  Led a team of engineers and contributed to deliver a part of Apple’s next generation products.
• Consultant, Cruise Automation Inc., Aug 2014 - Sep 2014
  Advised engineers on the issues of analyzing highway driving videos for vehicle control and developed a computer vision algorithm to track the boundaries of ego-lane.
• Co-Investigator, the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Oct 2012 - Jun 2014
  Provided technical guidance to the committee of the 2013 Korea Autonomous Vehicle Contest and investigated perception technologies for reliable autonomous driving.
• Post-Doctoral Researcher, Dept of Electrical Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Jun 2012 - Jun 2014
  Led GM-CMU Autonomous Driving Collaborative Research Lab (AD-CRL)’s perception efforts for autonomous driving demonstration on public roads.
• Graduate Research Assistant, the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Jan 2007 - Apr 2012
  Developed perception algorithms to understand and model urban driving environments for reliable autonomous driving.
• Research Software Development Engineer Intern, Bing Imagery Technology R&D, Microsoft Corp, Jun - Aug, 2010
  Developed a system that analyzes GPS tracks and learns to classify the type of intersections (e.g., stop, yield).
• Research Programmer, the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Nov 2000 - Dec 2006
  Developed novel machine learning algorithms for multi-agent systems.
• Graduate Research Assistant, Artificial Intelligence Lab, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Dec 1997 - Aug 2000
  Developed software agent systems for personalized and collaborative information filtering.

Honors and Awards

• Nov 29, 2018: Invited to give a talk “AI for Transporation: Where We Stand and What Are the Challenges” at International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AIIC-18), hosted by the Korean Ministry of Science and ICT, Seoul, Korea.
• Aug 23, 2017: Delivered the opening keynote, “Envisioning the Future of Mobility” at Autonomous Vehicles (AV17), Detroit, MI. (“Hyperloop One: The Future of Global High Speed Travel”).
• Nov 2013: Received the Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT) Headliner Award from College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University. This was awarded to appreciate the efforts and dedications of the members of the GM-CMU, Autonomous Driving Collaborative Research Lab for demonstrating autonomous driving of a robotic car on public roads.
• Oct 2012: Finalist of the Best Student Paper Award from the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC-12).
• Nov 3, 2007: A member of the Tartan Racing team that won the 1st place of the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge (wiki), Victorville, CA.
• Jan 2007 – Apr 2012: Received Graduate Research Assistant Fellowship (full tuition and stipend) from the Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.
• May 23, 2006: Awarded Best Paper Honorable Mention (second prize) from the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI-2006).

Patents

• Youngwoo Seo, Automated transfer of vehicle control for autonomous driving, US 10717448, filed: Apr 30, 2019 and issued: July 21, 2020.
• Matisse J. Milovich, Youngwoo Seo, and Matthew E. Last, Database management for potential pull-off areas, US 10262538, filed: Sep 1, 2017 and issued: Jan 24, 2019.
• Youngwoo Seo, Randol Aikin, and Kshitiz Garg, System and method for road friction coefficient estimation, US 10442439, filed: Aug 8, 2017 and issued: Aug 19, 2019.
• Byron Han, Youngwoo Seo, Kit-man Wan, Non-solid object monitoring, Publication number: 62232807, filed: Sep 25, 2015 and pending.

Education

• Ph.D. in Robotics, the Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Apr 2012.
• M.S. in Robotics, the Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Dec 2005.
• M.S. in Computer Science, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Aug 2000.
• B.S. in Computer Science, Dept of Computer Science, Konkuk University, Feb 1998.