Jean Hyaejin Oh

Jean Hyaejin Oh is an Associate Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, where she leads the Bot Intelligence Group. Her research centers on AI-driven autonomy, multimodal perception, vision-language planning, and human-robot interaction, with the broader goal of creating persistent robots capable of coexisting with humans in dynamic environments. Her work investigates how robots can translate information across vision, language, and planning modules—allowing them to fuse human-provided verbal cues, generate natural-language descriptions, follow complex semantic navigation instructions, and explain past and future actions. Oh has played key leadership roles in major robotics programs, including DARPA’s ALIAS project and the ARL RCTA initiative, where her team’s contributions to language-guided navigation earned the Best Cognitive Robotics Paper Award at ICRA 2015. Her recent projects explore semantic mapping for disaster response, cross-modal understanding, and socially compliant robot behavior. Her lab actively collaborates across disciplines and supports students interested in embodied AI and next-generation autonomous systems.