Jaerock Kwon, Ph.D.

Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA 

M.Sc. in Electronic Communication Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea 

B.Sc. in Electronic Communication Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

http://jrkwon.com/publications/

• MRI: Acquisition of Autonomous Plug-In Hybrid Vehicle Platform for Multidisciplinary Research and Education at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, National Science Foundation, $244,610.00, (PI), 9/1/2022 – 8/31/2025
• AI System Security Detection Monitoring Research, Ford Motor Company, $199,731.00, (co-PI), 4/1/2022 – 3/31/2024
• Development of Markerless 3D Human Motion Capture Framework from 2D Videos Using Deep Learning, ADVANCE Grant Program, Michigan State Economic Development Corporation, $20,000.00, (PI), 2022
• Detection and tracking of vehicles using Lidar point clouds for autonomous lane-changing system, Hyundai MOBIS Technical Center North America, $50,000.00, (co-PI), 5/31/2021 – 11/30/2021
• Cooperative Perception and Navigation for Multiple Vehicles Using Deep Neural Network, Korea-US International Joint Research Project sponsored by Institute for Information and Communications Technology Promotion (IITP), Korea, $41,617.00, (PI), June 2020 – May 2021
• Development of Autonomous Vehicle Research Platform using Deep Learning and Robot Operating System, Korea-US International Joint Research Project sponsored by Institute for Information and Communications Technology Promotion (IITP), Korea, $21,027.00, (PI), Jan 2020 – June 2020
• Markerless 3D Human Motion Inference Framework from 2D Videos using Deep Learning, Research Initiation & Development Grant by University of Michigan-Dearborn, $15,000.00, (PI), May 2020 – April 2022
• Faculty Research Fellowship, Development of Experimental Setup for Evaluating Vehicular Communication System (V2X), Kettering University, 2018.
• Provost’s Research Matching Fund, Development of Low-Cost Autonomous Vehicle Experimental Platform, Kettering University, 2017
• Outstanding Researcher Award, Kettering University, 2016 in recognition of significant contributions in the areas of Computational Neuroscience and Neurobotics.
• Faculty Research Fellowship, A Touch-Enabled Virtual Room for Scientific Data Exploration, Kettering University, 2015.
• Development of High-Throughput and High-Resolution Three-Dimensional Tissue Scanner with Internet-Connected 3D Virtual Microscope for Large-Scale Automated Histology (NSF Award No. ECCS-1337983, PI: Kwon) 2013 - 2017.
• Kettering University Innovation Fellow, 2013
• Oswald International Faculty Fellowships, Kettering University, 2010 - 2011.
• Travel Grant for IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2007.
• SK Employee Award, MPR/S division, An Excellent Employee, SK Teletech, 2001.
• Graduate fellowship from LG Electronics Co., Ltd. (Two-year full-tuition), 1992 - 1993.
• Undergraduate fellowship from LG Electronics Co., Ltd. (Two-year full-tuition), 1990 - 1991
• Academic Merit Scholarship, 1988