Minsu Jang (장민수, ETRI)

CONTACT INFORMATION

Social Robotics Research Section
Humanoid Robot System Research Department
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)
Gajeong-ro 218, Yuseong-gu
Daejeon-si, 34129
South Korea
(email) minsu[at]etri.re.kr
(google scholar) https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ggkuHCcAAAAJ

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Social Human-Robot Interaction, Robot Software Framework, Foundation Models for Robotics, Machine Learning, Rule/Ontology Modeling and Reasoning, Artificial General Intelligence,

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Computer Science, March 2015 – Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
Dissertation Title: Adaptive acceleration-based gesture recognition using meta-cognitive framework. Hyun Seung Yang, Chair
M.A. in Computer Science, March 1994 – Sogang University
B.A. in Computer Science, March 1992 – Sogang University

AFFILIATION

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Principal Researcher, 1999 – Present)
Hyundai Electronics Industries Co., Ltd. (Researcher, 1994 – 1999)

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-reviewed International Journals

  1. Cho, Miyoung, Dohyung Kim, Minsu Jang, Jaeyeon Lee, Jaehong Kim, Woo-han Yun, Youngwoo Yoon, Jinhyeok Jang, and Cheonshu Park. “Evaluating Human-Care Robot Services for the Elderly: An Experimental Study.” International Journal of Social Robotics 16, no. 7 (2024): 1561-1587.
  2. Ko, Woo-Ri, Minsu Jang, Jaeyeon Lee, and Jaehong Kim. “Nonverbal Social Behavior Generation for Social Robots Using End-to-End Learning.” The International Journal of Robotics Research 43, no. 5 (2024): 716-728.
  3. Jang, Minsu, Ho Seok Ahn, and Jong-Suk Choi. “Editorial Introduction to Special Issue on Machine Learning for Social Human-Robot Interaction.” International Journal of Social Robotics 15, no. 4 (2023): 581-582.
  4. Hellou, Mehdi, JongYoon Lim, Norina Gasteiger, Minsu Jang, and Ho Seok Ahn. “Technical Methods for Social Robots in Museum Settings: An Overview of the Literature.” International Journal of Social Robotics 14, no. 8 (2022): 1767-1786.
  5. Jang, Minsu, JongSuk Choi, Ho Seok Ahn, and Chung Hyuk Park. “(Editorial) Social human-robot interaction (sHRI) of human-care service robots.” Frontiers in Robotics and AI 9 (2022): 1064440.
  6. Hellou, Mehdi, Norina Gasteiger, Jong Yoon Lim, Minsu Jang, and Ho Seok Ahn. “Personalization and Localization in Human-Robot Interaction: A Review of Technical Methods.” Robotics 10, no. 4 (2021): 120.
  7. Jang, Minsu, Ho Seok Ahn, Jong-Suk Choi, Frank Kirstein, and Yoichi Takayama. “Special Issue on Social Human-Robot Interaction for Human-Care Robots.” Intelligent Service Robotics 14, no. 3 (2021): 327-328.
  8. Ko, Woo-Ri, Minsu Jang, Jaeyeon Lee, and Jaehong Kim. “AIR-Act2Act: Human–human interaction dataset for teaching non-verbal social behaviors to robots.” The International Journal of Robotics Research 40, no. 4-5 (2021): 691-697.
  9. Yoon, Youngwoo, Bok Cha, Joo-Haeng Lee, Minsu Jang, Jaeyeon Lee, Jaehong Kim, and Geehyuk Lee. “Speech gesture generation from the trimodal context of text, audio, and speaker identity.” ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)39, no. 6 (2020): 1-16.
  10. Jang, Minsu, Jaehong Kim, Yong–Ho Seo, and Hyun–Seung Yang. “Adaptive gesture tracking and recognition using acceleration sensors for a mobile device.” International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing 8, no. 2 (2015): 183-193.

International Conferences (+ arXiv preprints)

  1. Kim, Hyungmin, Hobeom Jeon, Dohyung Kim, Minsu Jang, and Jaehong Kim. “SPOC: Safety-Aware Planning Under Partial Observability And Physical Constraints.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.21595 (2026). (arxiv)
  2. Choi, Jae-Woo, Hyungmin Kim, Hyobin Ong, Youngwoo Yoon, Minsu Jang, Dohyung Kim, and Jaehong Kim. “ReAcTree: Hierarchical LLM Agent Trees with Control Flow for Long-Horizon Task Planning.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.02424 (2025). (arxiv)
  3. Kanwal, Seher, Assefa Seyoum Wahd, Seungsik Lee, Minsu Jang, and Seung-Ik Lee. “Unknown Object Detection by Leveraging Segment Anything Model for Labeling the OOD Objects.” In 2025 16th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC). 2025.
  4. Park, Cheonshu, Miyoung Cho, Minjung Shin, Jeh-Kwang Ryu, and Minsu Jang. “Adaptive Robot-Mediated Assessment using LLM for Enhanced Survey Quality in Older Adults Care Programs.” In 2025 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). 2025.
  5. Jang, Minsu. “Revisiting ALFRED: Refining Commands for Evaluating Language-Guided Task Planning.” In The 8th Workshop on Generalization in Planning (GenPlan), AAAI 2025. 2025.
  6. Ong, Hyobin, Youngwoo Yoon, Jae-Woo Choi, and Minsu Jang. “A Simple Baseline for Uncertainty-Aware Language-Oriented Task Planner for Embodied Agents.” In 2024 21st International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), pp. 677-682. 2024.
  7. Yun, Woo-han, Minsu Jang, and Jaehong Kim. “Model Comparison for Fast Domain Adaptation in Table Service Scenario.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.05092 (2024). (arxiv)
  8. Choi, Jae-Woo, Youngwoo Yoon, Hyobin Ong, Jaehong Kim, and Minsu Jang. “LoTa-Bench: Benchmarking Language-oriented Task Planners for Embodied Agents.” In The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations. 2023. (Open Review, github)
  9. Kim, Taewoo, Donghyung Kim, Minsu Jang, and Jaehong Kim. “Uncertainty-Aware Shared Autonomy System with Hierarchical Conservative Skill Inference.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.02488 (2023). (arxiv)
  10. Jang, Minsu, Youngwoo Yoon, Jaewoo Choi, Hyobin Ong, and Jaehong Kim. “A Structured Prompting based on Belief-Desire-Intention Model for Proactive and Explainable Task Planning.” In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, pp. 375-377. 2023. (pdf)
  11. Shin, Minjung, Minsu Jang, Miyoung Cho, and Jeh-Kwang Ryu. “Uncertainty-Resolving Questions for Social Robots.” In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 226-230. 2023.
  12. Cho, Youngjo, Miyoung Cho, and Minsu Jang. “Social Robot Intelligence Quotient to Measure Human-Robot Interaction Performance for Human-Care Service Robots.” In 2023 20th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), pp. 616-621. 2023.
  13. Cho, Miyoung, Minsu Jang, Dohyung Kim, and Jaehong Kim. “An Experimental Evaluation of Human-Care Robot Services for Older People in Home.” In 2023 20th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), pp. 141-147. 2023.
  14. Ko, Woo-Ri, Minsu Jang, Jaeyeon Lee, and Jaehong Kim. “Adaptive Behavior Generation of Social Robots Based on User Behavior Recognition.” In International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), pp. 188-197. 2022.
  15. Cho, Miyoung, Jinhyeok Jang, Jaeyeon Lee, Minsu Jang, Dohyung Kim, and Jaehong Kim. “Real-World Validation Study of Daily Activity Detection for the Elderly.” In 2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). 2022.
  16. Yoon, Youngwoo, Keunwoo Park, Minsu Jang, Jaehong Kim, and Geehyuk Lee. “SGToolkit: An Interactive Gesture Authoring Toolkit for Embodied Conversational Agents.” In The 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pp. 826-840. 2021.
  17. Jang, Minsu, Soonshin Seo, Dohyung Kim, Jaeyeon Lee, Jaehong Kim, and Jae-Hyun Ahn. “Vote400: A Speech Dataset to Study Voice Interface for Elderly-Care.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.11469 (2021). (arxiv)
  18. Kim, Taewoo, Minsu Jang, and Jaehong Kim. “A Survey on Simulation Environments for Reinforcement Learning.” In 2021 18th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), pp. 63-67. 2021.
  19. Jang, Jinhyeok, Dohyung Kim, Cheonshu Park, Minsu Jang, Jaeyeon Lee, and Jaehong Kim. “ETRI-activity3D: A large-scale RGB-D dataset for robots to recognize daily activities of the elderly.” In 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 10990-10997. IEEE, 2020.
  20. Ko, Woo-Ri, Jaeyeon Lee, Minsu Jang, and Jaehong Kim. “End-to-End Learning of Social Behaviors for Humanoid Robots.” In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), pp. 1200-1205. IEEE, 2020.
  21. Yoon, Youngwoo, Woo-Ri Ko, Minsu Jang, Jaeyeon Lee, Jaehong Kim, and Geehyuk Lee. “Robots learn social skills: End-to-end learning of co-speech gesture generation for humanoid robots.” In 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 4303-4309. IEEE, 2019.
  22. Ko, Woo-Ri, Youngwoo Yoon, Minsu Jang, Jaeyeon Lee, and Jaehong Kim. “End-to-End Learning-based Interaction Behavior Genera-tion for Social Robots.” In Proc. Int. Conf. Social Robotics (ICSR), Qingdao, China. 2018.
  23. Jang, Minsu, Jaehong Kim, and Jaeyeon Lee. “Project AIR: Developing Artificial Social Intelligence for Human-Care Robots.” In 2018 Workshop on Social Human-Robot Interaction for Human-care Robots, 2018.
  24. Jang, Minsu, Cheonshu Park, and Jaehong Kim. “Building a Schema for the Description of HRI Experiments”, Workshop on Towards Standardized Experiments in HRI (IROS2015), 2015. pdf
  25. Jang, Minsu, Jaehong Kim, and Byeong-Kyu Ahn. “A software framework design for social human-robot interaction.” In 2015 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), pp. 411-412. IEEE, 2015.
  26. Jang, Minsu, Cheonshu Park, and Hyun-Seung Yang. “Building an automated engagement recognizer based on video analysis.” In 2014 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), pp. 182-183. IEEE, 2014.
  27. Jang, Minsu, Dae-Ha Lee, Jaehong Kim, and Youngjo Cho. “Identifying principal social signals in private student-teacher interactions for robot-enhanced education.” In 2013 IEEE RO-MAN, pp. 621-626. IEEE, 2013.
  28. Yu, Wonpil, Jae-Yeong Lee, Heesung Chae, Kyuseo Han, Yucheol Lee, and Minsu Jang. “Robot task control utilizing human-in-the-loop perception.” In RO-MAN 2008-The 17th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 395-400. IEEE, 2008.
  29. Jang, Minsu, Joo-Chan Sohn, and Youngjo Cho. “Building semantic robot space based on the semantic web.” In RO-MAN 2007-The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 499-504. IEEE, 2007.
  30. Jang, Minsu, Jaehong Kim, Meekyoung Lee, and Joo-Chan Sohn. “Ubiquitous robot simulation framework and its applications.” In IROS 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 4077-4082. IEEE, 2005.
  31. Jang, Minsu, and Joo-Chan Sohn. “Bossam: An extended rule engine for OWL inferencing.” In International Workshop on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web, pp. 128-138. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2004.

국내 학술지 (Korean Journals & Conferences)

  1. 조미영, 김재홍, 이대하, 장민수, “인공지능 안내 로봇 서비스 만족도와 품질 속성 분석”, 로봇학회 논문지, 제18권 2호, pp. 216-224, 2023.
  2. 장민수, 김재홍, “대형언어모델로 진화하는 로봇 지능”, 한국통신학회 정보와통신, 제40권 5호, 2023. link

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