Heliophysics Onboard: SSA Live Twin for Space Weather

Chia-Man Hung, Hala Lamdouar, Martin Sanner, Emma Stevenson, Ioanna Bouri, Robert Jarolim, Josh Veitch-Michaelis

Frontier Development Lab Europe 2023

In 2023 European Space-Weather Week (ESSW)

@techreport{hung2023ssa,
  title={Heliophysics Onboard: SSA Live Twin for Space Weather},
  author={Hung, Chia-Man and Lamdouar, Hala and Sanner, Martin and Stevenson, Emma and Bouri, Ioanna and Jarolim, Robert and Veitch-Michaelis, Josh},
  year={2023},
  institution={Frontier Development Lab Europe}
}

From Visuomotor Control to Latent Space Planning for Robot Manipulation

Chia-Man Hung

PhD thesis, University of Oxford

@phdthesis{hung2022from,
  title={From Visuomotor Control to Latent Space Planning for Robot Manipulation},
  author={Hung, Chia-Man},
  year={2022},
  school={University of Oxford}
}

Leveraging Scene Embeddings for Gradient-Based Motion Planning in Latent Space

Jun Yamada*, Chia-Man Hung*, Jack Collins, Ioannis Havoutis, Ingmar Posner

(*Equal contribution)

In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Best Poster Award at 2023 UK Manipulation workshop

@inproceedings{yamada2023leveraging,
  title={Leveraging scene embeddings for gradient-based motion Planning in latent space},
  author={Yamada, Jun and Hung, Chia-Man and Collins, Jack and Havoutis, Ioannis and Posner, Ingmar},
  booktitle={2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  pages={},
  year={2023},
  organization={IEEE}
}

Reaching Through Latent Space: From Joint Statistics to Path Planning in Manipulation

Chia-Man Hung, Shaohong Zhong, Walter Goodwin, Oiwi Parker Jones, Martin Engelcke, Ioannis Havoutis, Ingmar Posner

In 2022 IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

also in 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

@article{hung2022reaching,
  title={Reaching Through Latent Space: From Joint Statistics to Path Planning in Manipulation},
  author={Hung, Chia-Man and Zhong, Shaohong and Goodwin, Walter and Jones, Oiwi Parker and Engelcke, Martin and Havoutis, Ioannis and Posner, Ingmar},
  journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
  volume={7},
  number={2},
  pages={5334--5341},
  year={2022},
  publisher={IEEE}
}

Goal-Conditioned End-to-End Visuomotor Control for Versatile Skill Primitives

Oliver Groth, Chia-Man Hung, Andrea Vedaldi, Ingmar Posner

In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

@inproceedings{groth2021goal,
  title={Goal-conditioned end-to-end visuomotor control for versatile skill primitives},
  author={Groth, Oliver and Hung, Chia-Man and Vedaldi, Andrea and Posner, Ingmar},
  booktitle={2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  pages={1319--1325},
  year={2021},
  organization={IEEE}
}

Introspective Visuomotor Control: Exploiting Uncertainty in Deep Visuomotor Control for Failure Recovery

Chia-Man Hung, Li Sun, Yizhe Wu, Ioannis Havoutis, Ingmar Posner

In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

@inproceedings{hung2021introspective,
  title={Introspective visuomotor control: exploiting uncertainty in deep visuomotor control for failure recovery},
  author={Hung, Chia-Man and Sun, Li and Wu, Yizhe and Havoutis, Ioannis and Posner, Ingmar},
  booktitle={2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  pages={6293--6299},
  year={2021},
  organization={IEEE}
}

The StarCraft Multi-Agent Challenge

Mikayel Samvelyan*, Tabish Rashid*, Christian Schroeder de Witt, Gregory Farquhar, Nantas Nardelli, Tim GJ Rudner, Chia-Man Hung, Philip HS Torr, Jakob Foerster, Shimon Whiteson

(*Equal contribution)

In 2019 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS)

also in 2019 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Deep RL workshop

@inproceedings{samvelyan2019starcraft,
  title={The StarCraft Multi-Agent Challenge},
  author={Samvelyan, Mikayel and Rashid, Tabish and Schroeder de Witt, Christian and Farquhar, Gregory and Nardelli, Nantas and Rudner, Tim GJ and Hung, Chia-Man and Torr, Philip HS and Foerster, Jakob and Whiteson, Shimon},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems},
  pages={2186--2188},
  year={2019}
}

Strong Edge-Coloring for Jellyfish Graphs

Gerard J Chang, Sheng-Hua Chen, Chi-Yun Hsu, Chia-Man Hung, Huei-Ling Lai

(*Authors listed in alphabetical order)

In 2015 Discrete Mathematics

@article{chang2015strong,
  title={Strong edge-coloring for jellyfish graphs},
  author={Chang, Gerard J and Chen, Sheng-Hua and Hsu, Chi-Yun and Hung, Chia-Man and Lai, Huei-Ling},
  journal={Discrete Mathematics},
  volume={338},
  number={12},
  pages={2348--2355},
  year={2015},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}

Team ORIon

Ioannis Havoutis, Nick Hawes, Lars Kunze, Bruno Lacerda, Chia-Man Hung, Mark Finean, Denis Koksal-Rivet, Stephen Kyberd

Oct 2019

Robot Learning for Autonomous Assembly

Chia-Man Hung

Sep 2018

Multi-Class Image Classification - Learning Output Kernels with Block Coordinate Descent

Chia-Man Hung, Wei Jiang, Zhengying Liu, Xiaoling Zhu

Apr 2017

Linagora Data Challenge - Email Recipient Recommendation

Salma El Alaoui Talibi, Chia-Man Hung, Zhengying Liu, Mario Ynocente Castro

Mar 2017

Data Challenge in Kernel Methods - Multi-class Image Classification

Chia-Man Hung, Zhengying Liu, Mario Ynocente Castro

Mar 2017

State Space Model for the Prediction of Energy Consumption

Dexiong Chen, Chia-Man Hung

Mar 2017

Review of Statistical and Computational Trade-offs in Estimation of Sparse Principal Components

Chia-Man Hung, Zhengying Liu

Jan 2017

Variational Methods for Inference

Dexiong Chen, Chia-Man Hung, Baoyang Song

Jan 2017

Immediate Versus Delayed Rewards for the Game of Go

Chia-Man Hung, Dexiong Chen

Jan 2017

Pathfinding in 3D Space - A*, Theta*, Lazy Theta* in Octree Structure

Ruoqi He, Chia-Man Hung

Mar 2016

Real-Time Approximated Global Illumination - From SSAO to SSDO

Chia-Man Hung

Feb 2016

Skybox Creation by Photo Fusion

Ruoqi He, Chia-Man Hung

Feb 2016

Shortest Paths on Surfaces - Geodesics in Heat

Ruoqi He, Chia-Man Hung

Nov 2015

Multiplayer LAN Card Game - Love Letter

Quei-An Chen, Chia-Man Hung

Jun 2015

Face Detection with Boosting

Ruoqi He, Chia-Man Hung

May 2015

French National Robotic Competition

Alexis Clariond, Chia-Man Hung, Raymond Li, Yuxiang Li, Étienne Six, Marc Szafraniec, Bruno Taillé

May 2015

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” ― Leonardo da Vinci. Gliding, basically flying without an engine, is the purest and closest form of flying to how birds fly. Glidng has been a huge part of my life since 2017 (my pilot story). My first solo flight in 2018 is a memory I will cherish forever. In 2019, I was proud to become a licensed glider pilot (Bronze + cross-country endorsement for those who fly in the UK) and to win the Best Progress of the Year Trophy at Bicester Gliding Club. Dedicated to sharing my passion, I served as the captain (2018-19) and the IT officer (2019-20) of Oxford University Gliding Club. To my surprise, I was awarded the Air League Flying Scholarship in 2019, which I used to fund 20 hours of motorglider training. If I ever decided research was not for me, I could certainly envision embarking on an aviation career. [Video]

My newfound obsession is judo. Starting out as a complete beginner in 2018 (shortly after I joined the ORI), I was awarded the Best Beginner of the Year Trophy at Oxford Judo. Subsequently, I won Bronze at BUCS 2020 (kyu grade), and also represented Oxford in the Women's Blues Team and won my Varsity fight againt Cambridge (thus recevied an Oxford Half-Blue). Afterwards, I served as the women's captain (2020-21) of Oxford Judo. In late 2021, I was fortunate to win Gold at the Taiwan Judo Championship. Although I feel the learning has just begun, my competition performance made me eligible for a black belt (1st Dan), which I received in early 2022. In my pursuit of judo knowledge and physical fitness, I stumbled upon strength training and more specifically powerlifting. My friend/coach encouraged me to compete and I signed up for my first powerlifting meet, which took place in July 2022. I thought to myself that I could have become a full-time athlete had I started earlier, and I honestly think I would have enjoyed it just as much. [Video]

Born and raised in Taiwan, educated in France (almost 6 years) and in the UK (4+ years), I speak Mandarin, French, and English. My experience in learning French sparked my interest in language learning, and I have since attempted German, Japanese, and Russian. Although I am not very good at any of these, I enjoy listening to music and watching videos in my target languages. Great stimulus for my brain and it feels good whenever I understand something or pick up something new. [My Russian presentation about gliding]

Here are a couple of fun things I do from time to time: bouldering, BJJ, yoga, reading, and learning new languages. Others, such as tennis, hiking, road running, scuba diving, piano, and flute playing in an orchestra, have been set aside due to time constraints. [Video]