Chan-Jin Chung

Chan-Jin Chung (Korean: 정찬진; born January 4, 1959), also known as CJ Chung, is a professor of computer science at Lawrence Technological University (LTU) in Michigan, USA. He is the founder of Robofest, an international autonomous robotics competition established during the 1999–2000 academic year He has contributed to educational programs that integrate science, technology, engineering, mathematics (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), arts, robotics, and computer science.

Chung served as the founding USA National Organizer of the World Robot Olympiad (WRO) in 2014 and 2015. He also initiated the WISER (World conference on Integrated STEaM Education through Robotics) conference in 2014. His work includes the development of undergraduate curricula for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) supported by the National Science Foundation . His research areas include evolutionary computation, cultural algorithms, intelligent systems & autonomous mobile robotics, self-driving Cloud laboratory, software engineering, machine learning & deep learning, evolutionary deep learning (hyper-parameter optimization), modelling medical systems (Cardiopulmonary bypass machines), computer science education, and educational robotics.