Scholar
Soon-Jo Chung
Google Scholar ID: -ClLU3EAAAAJ
Bren Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems at Caltech; JPL Senior Research Scientist
Autonomy
Aerial Robotics
Space Systems
Spacecraft Formation Flying
Nonlinear Control
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Citations & Impact
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Citations
7,359
H-index
43
i10-index
117
Publications
20
Co-authors
113
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Email
SJCHUNG@CALTECH.EDU
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Publications
8 items
ContractionPPO: Certified Reinforcement Learning via Differentiable Contraction Layers
2026
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Environment-Aware Learning of Smooth GNSS Covariance Dynamics for Autonomous Racing
2026
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A Counterfactual Reasoning Framework for Fault Diagnosis in Robot Perception Systems
2025
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Array-Based Monte Carlo Tree Search
2025
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0
COFFEE: A Shadow-Resilient Real-Time Pose Estimator for Unknown Tumbling Asteroids using Sparse Neural Networks
2025
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MonoTher-Depth: Enhancing Thermal Depth Estimation via Confidence-Aware Distillation
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2025
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Neural-Rendezvous: Provably Robust Guidance and Control to Encounter Interstellar Objects
Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics · 2022
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Contraction Theory for Nonlinear Stability Analysis and Learning-based Control: A Tutorial Overview
Annual Reviews in Control · 2021
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110
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
2024 IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Best Paper Award
2020 Honorable Mention, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Best Paper Award
Best Paper Award, 2015 AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference
Best Paper Award, 2009 AIAA Infotech at Aerospace Conference
Four best student paper awards
NSF CAREER Award
AFOSR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award
UIUC Engineering Dean's Award for Excellence in Research
Arnold Beckman Faculty Fellowship, UIUC Center for Advanced Study
Multiple teaching excellence awards (UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent)
Advisor for NASA BIG Idea Challenge finalists (2021, 2022, 2024)
Led teams to 1st place in AIAA International Student Conference and AIAA Undergraduate Team Space Design Competition
Bat Bot featured in a special exhibit at the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg
Miscellany
Senior Editor, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Associate Editor, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics
Alternative Director (AIAA) on the American Automatic Control Council Board of Directors
Former Senior Editor, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Former Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Co-authors
113 total
Co-author 1
seth hutchinson
Northeastern University
Co-author 3
Yisong Yue
California Institute of Technology; Asari AI; Latitude AI
Jean-Jacques Slotine
MIT, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Information Sciences, Professor of Brain Sciences
Co-author 6
Co-author 7
Guanya Shi
Assistant Professor, CMU RI | Amazon Scholar, FAR (Frontier AI & Robotics)
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