- Timothy H. Chung
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Assistant Professor
Mail Code: SE
Department of Systems Engineering Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Monterey, CA 93943
Phone: 831-656-7858
Email: thchung (at) nps.edu
Web: faculty.nps.edu/thchung
- EDUCATION:
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PhD - California Institute of Technology, 2007
Mechanical Engineering
MS - California Institute of Technology, 2002
Mechanical Engineering
BS - Cornell University, 2001
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
NPS EXPERIENCE:
- Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Engineering, 2011 to present
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Research Assistant Professor, Department of Operations Research, 2008 - 2010
OTHER EXPERIENCE:
- 2007-08 Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Probabilistic Search
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Multi-agent Coordination for Information Gathering
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Many vs. Many Autonomous Systems Research
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Operations and Decision Support for Unmanned Systems
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Systems Engineering and Integration for Robotic Systems
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Interface between Autonomous Systems and Operation Research
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Search Theory and Detection
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Surveillance and Interdiction Operations
AWARDS:
- Gates Millennium Scholar alumnus
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Recipient of numerous professional service awards
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
- T.H. Chung and J.W. Burdick (2012). Analysis of Search Decision Making Using Probabilistic Search Strategies. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 28(1), 132-144.
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T.H. Chung, G.A. Hollinger, and V. Isler. (2011). Search and Pursuit-Evasion in Mobile Robotics: A Survey. Autonomous Robots, Special Issue on Search and Pursuit/Evasion with Mobile Robots, 31(4), 299-316. Springer Netherlands.
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J. Ma, T.H. Chung, and J.W. Burdick. (2011). A Probabilistic Framework for Object Search with 6-DOF Pose Estimation. The International Journal of Robotics Research, Special Issue on Semantic Perception for Robots in Indoor Environments, 30(10), 1209-1228.
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S. Carpin, D. Burch, and T.H. Chung. (2011). Searching for Multiple Targets using Probabilistic Quadtrees. 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 4536-4543). San Francisco, CA: IEEE.
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T.H. Chung and S. Carpin. "Multiscale Search using Probabilistic Quadtrees," 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Shanghai, China. 2011
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K.L. Byers, T.H. Chung, and R.T. Johnson. "Modeling and Analysis of Tactical installation Protection Missions." Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference. Baltimore, Maryland, 2010
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T.H. Chung, M. Kress, and J.O. Royset, "Probabilistic Search Optimization and Mission Assignment for Heterogeneous Autonomous Agents," 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Kobe, Japan. 2009
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T.H. Chung, "On Probabilistic Search Decisions under Searcher Motion Constraints," 2008 Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, Guanajuato, Mexico. 2008
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T.H. Chung and J.W. Burdick, "A Decision-Making Framework for Control Strategies in Probabilistic Search," 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Roma, Italy. 2007
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