Choon Ki Ahn talks to Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering about research and education in Korea University’s School of Electrical Engineering, including work to advance physical artificial intelligence (AI) for autonomous systems by pioneering new control strategies and learning under uncertainty, to create machines that can operate independently and safely in dynamic, unpredictable and often adversarial real-world environments.
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Choon Ki Ahn was interviewed by Silvia Conti and Alison Wright
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Ahn, C.K., Conti, S. & Wright, A. Research on physical AI for autonomous systems at Korea University. Nat Rev Electr Eng 2, 711–712 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44287-025-00198-y
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