Jean Oh

Jean Oh is an Associate Research Professor and Director of roBot Intelligence Group (BIG) at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Jean’s research goal is to create robots that can co-exist and collaborate with humans in shared environments, continuously learning to improve themselves over time through training, exploration, and interaction. The philosophical goal of Jean’s research is to develop technologies to remind us of “what makes us human,” promoting humanity such as safety, creativity, and compassion. Jean is best known for her contributions to socially compliant navigation and interdisciplinary physical AI research between robotics and art. Jean’s work has won numerous best paper awards at various robotics conferences such as IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), and featured in media worldwide including New York Times, CNET, Arirang TV, ABC, CBS, and KBS. Jean received a PhD from CMU, MS from Columbia University, and BS from Yonsei University. Jean is the founder of Lavoro AI where she brings her creative, safe, and compassionate Physical AI innovations to market.

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    Carnegie Mellon University
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    Associate Research Professor and Director of roBot Intelligence Group (BIG), Robotics Institute
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