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Welcome to Junnan Song's website! I am Software Engineer at Waymo. I earned my Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA. Prior to joining UConn, I obtained my B.Engr. in Automation, and M.Engr. in Control Theory and Control Engineering, both from Northeastern University (China). Contact: junnan DOT song AT uconn DOT edu |
Research Interests
- Z. Shen, J. Song, K. Mittal and S. Gupta, "CT-CPP: Coverage Path Planning for 3D Terrain Reconstruction using Dynamic Coverage Trees", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol 7(1), pp 135-142, 2022.[Paper].
- K. Mittal, J. Song, S. Gupta and T.A. Wettergren, "Rapid Path Planning for Dubins Vehicles under Environmental Currents", Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol 134, pp 103646, 2020. [Paper].
- J. Hare, J. Song, S. Gupta and T.A. Wettergren, "POSE.R: Prediction-based Opportunistic Sensing for Resilient and Efficient Sensor Networks", ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol 17(1), Article 5, pp 1-41, 2021. [Paper].
- J. Song and S. Gupta, "CARE: Cooperative Autonomy for Resilience and Efficiency of Robotic Networks for Coverage under Failures", Autonomous Robots, 44, pp 647–671, 2020.
- J. Song, S. Gupta and T.A. Wettergren, "T*: Time-Optimal Risk-Aware Motion Planning for Curvature-Constrained Vehicles", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol 4(1), pp 33-40, 2019.[Paper][Slides].
- J. Song and S. Gupta, "ε*: An Online Coverage Path Planning Algorithm", IEEE Transactions on Robotics， Vol 34(2), pp 526-533, 2018. [Paper].
- J. Song, S. Gupta and T.A. Wettergren, "Time-optimal Path Planning for Underwater Vehicles in Obstacle Constrained Environments", OCEANS'17 MTS/IEEE, Anchorage, Alaska, September, (2017).
- J. Hare, J. Song, S. Gupta and T.A. Wettergren, "Classification Induced Distributed Sensor Scheduling for Energy-Efficiency in Underwater Target Tracking Sensor Networks", OCEANS'17 MTS/IEEE, Anchorage, Alaska, September, (2017).
- Z. Shen, J. Song, K. Mittal and S. Gupta, "Autonomous 3-D Mapping and Safe-Path Planning for Underwater Terrain Reconstruction Using Multi-Level Coverage Trees", OCEANS'17 MTS/IEEE, Anchorage, Alaska, September, (2017).
- Z. Shen, J. Song, K. Mittal and S. Gupta, "An Autonomous Integrated System for 3-D Underwater Terrain Reconstruction", OCEANS'16 MTS/IEEE, Monterey, California, September, (2016).
- J. Song and S. Gupta, "SLAM based Shape Adaptive Coverage Control using Autonomous Vehicles", 2015 10thIEEE International Conference on System of Systems Engineering, San Antonio, Texas, pp. 268-273, May, (2015).
- J. Song, S. Gupta and J. Hare, "Game-theoretic Cooperative Coverage using Autonomous Vehicles", OCEANS'14 MTS/IEEE, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, September, (2014).
- J. Song, K. Qiu, S. Gupta and J. Hare, "SLAM based Adaptive Navigation of AUVs for Oil Spill Cleaning", OCEANS'14 MTS/IEEE, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, September, (2014).
- J. Hare, S. Gupta and J. Song, "Distributed Smart Sensor Scheduling for Underwater Target Tracking", OCEANS'14MTS/IEEE, St. John's, Canada, September (2014).
- J. Song, S. Gupta, J. Hare and S. Zhou, "Adaptive Cleaning of Oil Spills by Autonomous Vehicles Under Partial Information", OCEANS'13 MTS/IEEE, San Diego, California, USA, September, (2013).
- S. Gupta and J. Song, "System and Method for Complete Coverage of Unknown Environments", US Patent, US20190354106A1, Granted, 2021.
- L. Wang, J. Song, J. Hou, H. Wang and Y. Chi, "Multifunctional Process Control Experiment Platform", China Patent, CN 201110286749, Granted, 2011.
- Software Engineer, Waymo, Mountain View, CA, August 2020 - Present.
- Software Engineer, Zoox, Foster City, CA, June 2019 - April 2020.
- Motion Planning Engineer Intern, SAIC Innovation Center, San Jose, CA, May 2018 – Aug 2018.
- Research Assistant, Laboratory of Intelligent Networks and Knowledge-perception Systems, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, Aug 2012 – May 2019.
- Research Assistant, State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, Sept 2010 - July 2012.
- Outstanding Reviewer, Elsevier, 2018.
- Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Connecticut, 2018, USA.
- Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut, USA, 2015-2017.
- Doctoral Student Travel Award, University of Connecticut, USA, 2017.
- Outstanding Graduate of Liaoning Province (Top2%), Class of 2012, China.
- First Prize, The 7th National Post-Graduate Mathematical Modeling Contest, 2010, China.
- Distinguished Prize, The 10th "Challenge Cup" Provincial Extra-curricular Academic Works Competition of Science and Technology, 2011, China.
- Second Prize, The 12th "Challenge Cup" National Extra-curricular Academic Works Competition of Science and Technology, 2011, China.
- Neusoft Excellence Scholarship, Neusoft Corporation, 2009, China.
- Suzhou Industrial Park Scholarship, Suzhou Industrial Economic Development Zone, 2011, China.
- Outstanding Student Award for all semesters, Northeastern University, 2007-2010, China.
- First Prize, Graduate School Scholarship at Northeastern University, 2010-2012, China.
- First Prize, Junior Middle School Mathematics Competition, Liaoning Province, 2001, China.
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
- IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine
- Intelligent Service Robotics
- Neurocomputing
- International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
- International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
- American Control Conference (ACC)
- ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC)
- IEEE Intelligent Vehicles (IV) Symposium
My research interests include motion planning for autonomous vehicles, multi-robot control and intelligent sensor networks. For more details, please visit here.
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