<2025 Fall Colloquium #4: New Paradigms and Future Directions in Autonomous Driving (Prof. Jun Won Choi)>

ㅇ Speaker: Prof. Jun Won Choi (College of Liberal Studies / Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)

ㅇ Date & Time: Thursday, December 18, 2025, 4:00 PM

ㅇ Location: 1st Floor Lecture Room, Haedong Advanced Engineering Building (Bldg. 303)

ㅇ Lecture Overview

    Autonomous driving technology, long regarded as a challenging research topic for about 20 years, is now on the verge of commercialization.

Recently, thanks to AI's scaling laws, autonomous driving technology has advanced to a level capable of actively responding to diverse edge cases and complex driving environments.

What has made this possible is a new paradigm known as end-to-end autonomous driving. This lecture introduces the latest technical trends in autonomous driving technology.

It also examines the current state of the domestic industry and discusses strategies and directions for Korean industry to secure competitiveness in autonomous driving amid global competition.

Finally, it looks at the major challenges facing autonomous driving technology and approaches for addressing them.

ㅇ Speaker Bio

Professor Jun Won Choi is currently affiliated with the College of Liberal Studies and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he conducts a range of research on autonomous driving and Physical AI.

He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

He worked at Qualcomm Research from 2010 to 2013 and currently leads a research laboratory focused on artificial intelligence and autonomous driving.