Our Researchers

Current Members

Meet the researchers and students of HEARD Lab.

Researchers

Current Members

Portrait of Jinkwang Kang

Jinkwang Kang

Undergraduate Researcher

Research Interests

  • Humanoid Robotics
  • Bipedal Locomotion
  • Robot Control and Dynamics
kang.jinkwang@stonybrook.edu
Portrait of Seohyeon (Jina) Cheon

Seohyeon (Jina) Cheon

Undergraduate Researcher

Research Interests

  • Robotics & Autonomous Systems
  • Mechanical Design & Robotic Mechanisms
  • Field & Space Robotics
seohyeon.cheon@stonybrook.edu
Research connections

Collaborators

Portrait of Edward Choi

Edward Choi

Columbia University

Research Interests

  • Human-Centered & Rehabilitation Robotics
  • Multimodal Robot Perception & Machine Learning
  • Robot Learning & Human–Robot Interaction

Biography

My research focuses on human-centered robotics, multimodal perception, and machine learning, with an emphasis on developing intelligent assistive systems. At Columbia University's ROAR Lab, I have worked on integrating multimodal sensor data and deep learning to enable real-time human posture recognition and adaptive robotic assistance. My current research collaboration with the HEARD Lab focuses on estimating center of pressure (CoP) from kinematic and anthropometric data, initially exploring Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) while investigating additional machine learning approaches to improve estimation accuracy and generalizability.

ec3279@columbia.edu