Seungjae Baek

Email: seungjab (at) andrew.cmu.edu

I am an incoming PhD student at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute (CMU RI), starting in Fall 2026.

I am currently a master's student in the Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence (AIGS) at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), advised by Professor Jeong hwan Jeon in the Robotics and Mobility Lab (RML).

I was a visiting researcher at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute (CMU RI), where I collaborate with Professor Sebastian Scherer and the AirLab (Aug. 2024 - Jan. 2026; Remote: Mar. 2025 - Jul. 2025). My research focuses on robot learning, informative path planning, and multi-robot systems, with an emphasis on robust autonomy in real-world environments.

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News

04/2026: STAR was accepted to IJCAI 2026.
04/2026: Accepted a PhD offer from the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute for Fall 2026.
01/2026: PCEG was accepted to ICRA 2026.
10/2025: Received the IEEE IES SYPA Travel Award for participation in IROS 2025 (USD 1,500).
08/2025: Received the Industrial Innovation Talent Growth Support (Overseas Linkage) grant (USD 21,500; Aug. 2025 – Jan. 2026).

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Publications

* indicates equal contribution.

	PRoID: Predicted Rate of Information Delivery in Multi-Robot Exploration and Relaying Seungchan Kim, Seungjae Baek, Micah Corah, Graeme Best, Brady Moon, Sebastian Scherer arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.10433 (2026). Under Review paper \| arXiv
	STAR: Spatio-Temporal Attention Rebalancing for Eco-Friendly Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand Systems Jungeun Lee, Seungjae Baek*, Seongjae Lee, Sunhwi Kim, Jeong hwan Jeon The 35th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2026*
	Prior-Constrained Explorative Guidance for Generalization in Diffusion Motion Planning Sunhwi Kim, Junsu Kim, Seungjae Baek, Jungeun Lee, Jaechan Shin, Seongjae Lee, Kyungdon Joo, Jeong hwan Jeon IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2026 Project Page \| Paper \| GitHub
	PIPE Planner: Pathwise Information Gain with Map Predictions for Indoor Robot Exploration Seungjae Baek, Brady Moon, Seungchan Kim, Muqing Cao, Cherie Ho, Sebastian Scherer, Jeong hwan Jeon IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2025* Project Page \| Paper \| GitHub
	Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Multiple Anti-Aircraft Target Surveillance Kangbeen Lee, Seungjae Baek*, Philjoon Jung, Tae-Hyun Kim, Jeong hwan Jeon Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems, 30(6)* Paper \| GitHub

Projects

	Autonomous Drone Mapping Pipeline for Construction Monitoring Dockerized SLAM for reproducible deployments and integrated multi-sensor and comms modules to enable autonomous mapping and data gathering. Aug. 2025 – Jan. 2026
	Real-Time Traffic Routing with Carbon Emission and Travel Demand Optimization Developed an eco-friendly AMoD fleet rebalancing framework using deep multi-agent reinforcement learning. Feb. 2024 – Dec. 2024
	Creating an Autonomous Vehicle with RoboRacer Project-Based Learning (PBL) course MEN491, implemented an autonomous race car platform as a team leader. Won 1st place in a university racing competition. Feb. 2023 – Jul. 2023

Teaching & Working Experiences

	ITP117 Introduction to AI Programming II Head Teaching Assistant, Spring 2024 EEE351 Automatic Control Student Organization's Student Lecturer, Fall 2022
	Clinomics Inc. Project-Based Learning (PBL) Teaching Assistant, Feb. 2023 – Jul. 2023

Achievements

IEEE IES SYPA Travel Award (IROS 2025) (USD 1,500) — IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (Oct. 2025)

Industrial Innovation Talent Growth Support (Overseas Linkage) (USD 21,500) — Korea University (Aug. 2025 – Jan. 2026)

AI Excellence Global Innovative Leader Education Program (USD 40,000 incl. tuition) — Sogang University (Aug. 2024 – Feb. 2025)

Government-funded Graduate Scholarship (2-year, fully funded) — Ministry of Science and ICT (Aug. 2023 – Aug. 2025)

UNIST Academic Performance Scholarship (4-year, fully funded) — UNIST (Feb. 2017 – Aug. 2023)

Undergraduate Research Excellent Poster Session Award — UNIST (Jul. 2023)

Services

Reviewer: IROS (2025, 2026), ICRA (2026), RA-L

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