Curriculum Vitae

Education

University of California, Los Angeles – Samueli School of Engineering
- Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Expected 2024
University of California, San Diego – Jacobs School of Engineering
- M.S. Electrical Engineering, Conferred June 2018
  - Intelligent Systems, Robotics, and Control
  - Thesis: “Continuous Behavior Acquisition in Clinical Environments”
- B.S. Electrical Engineering, Conferred June 2017
  - Machine Learning and Controls

Graduate Student Researcher, Sept 2021 - Present
- Verifiable & Control-Theoretic Robotics (VECTR) Laboratory, UCLA (Westwood, CA)
- Advised by Dr. Brett Lopez
Graduate Student Researcher, Sept 2019 - June 2021
- Laboratory for Embedded Machines and Ubiquitous Robots (LEMUR), UCLA (Westwood, CA)
- Advised by Dr. Ankur Mehta
University Collaborator, March 2020 - July 2021
- Team CoSTAR, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, CA)
- Advised by Dr. Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi and Dr. Brett Lopez
Research Assistant, Dec 2014 - June 2018
- Translational Neuroengineering Laboratory (TNEL), UC San Diego (La Jolla, CA)
- Advised by Dr. Vikash Gilja
Summer Research Intern, June 2017 - Sept 2017
- Translational Neuroengineering Laboratory (TNEL), UC San Diego (La Jolla, CA)
- Advised by Dr. Vikash Gilja

Year-Round Internship Program, July 2021 - Sept 2021 • Internship
- Team CoSTAR, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, CA)
- Group: Robot Perception Systems (347J)
- Project: SLAM in Perceptually-Degraded Environments
Software Engineer - Computer Vision, Oct 2018 - Aug 2019 • Full-time
- HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, CA)
COSMOS Robotics Teaching Assistant, May 2017 - Aug 2017 • Part-time
- UC San Diego (La Jolla, CA)
Electronics & Payloads Technical Intern, June 2016 - Sept 2016 • Internship
- Northrop Grumman Corporation (Melbourne, FL)
Contractor, Oct 2015 - June 2016 • Part-time
- SPAWAR Systems Center - Pacific (San Diego, CA)
Robotics Intern, June 2015 - Sept 2015 • Internship
- SPAWAR Systems Center - Pacific (San Diego, CA)
Math Tutor, Summer 2014 • Part-time
- Reading Town Irvine Woodbury (Irvine, CA)
Swim Coach, Summers 2010, 2011, 2012 • Part-time
- Irvine Swim League, College Park Splash (Irvine, CA)

Hardware
- microcontrollers, single-board computers, fast prototyping, soldering, laser cutting, 3d printing
Software
- Languages:
  - Primary: C/C++, Python, MATLAB
  - Secondary: Javascript, HTML, CSS
- Unix: bash, zsh, vim, tmux, regex
- Tools/Libraries: ROS, OpenCV, PCL, Pytorch, Tensorflow, Caffe, Protobufs
- Simulation: Gazebo, AirSim
- Version Control: Git, Subversion
- CI/CD: Jenkins, Travis CI
- 3D CAD: SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor
Other Languages
- Mandarin Chinese

Reviewer for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2021, 2022
Reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022
Reviewer for IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021
Reviewer for Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2021

K. Chen, B.T. Lopez, A. Agha-mohammadi, and A. Mehta, “Direct LiDAR Odometry: Fast Localization with Dense Point Clouds,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), Dec 2021.
T.K. Chang, K. Chen, A. Mehta, “Resilient and Consistent Multirobot Cooperative Localization with Covariance Intersection,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Sept 2021.
P. Gabriel, K. Chen, A. Alasfour, T. Pailla, W.K. Doyle, O. Devinsky, D. Friedman, P. Dugan, L. Melloni, T. Thesen, D. Gonda, S. Sattar, S. Wang, and V. Gilja, “Neural Correlates of Unstructured Motor Behaviors,” Journal of Neural Engineering, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 066026, 2019.
K. Chen, P. Gabriel, A. Alasfour, C. Gong, W.K. Doyle, O. Devinsky, D. Friedman, L. Melloni, T. Thesen, D. Gonda, S. Sattar, S. Wang, and V. Gilja, “Patient-Specific Pose Estimation in Clinical Environments,” IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, vol. 6, pp. 1-11, 2018.

K. Chen, A. Pogue, B.T. Lopez, A. Agha-mohammadi, and A. Mehta, “Unsupervised Monocular Depth Learning with Integrated Intrinsics and Spatio-Temporal Constraints,” IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Oct 2021.
A. Schperberg*, K. Chen*, S. Tsuei, M. Jewett, J. Hooks, S. Soatto, A. Mehta, and D. Hong, “Risk-Averse MPC via Visual-Inertial Input and Recurrent Networks for Online Collision Avoidance,” International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Oct 2020. *Indicates equal contribution
P. Gabriel, K. Chen, D. Gonda, S. Sattar, V. Gilja, and S. Wang, “Quantify Motor Semiology in the Pediatric Epilepsy Monitoring Unit using RGB-D Sensors,” American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2017.
K. Chen, P. Gabriel, A. Alasfour, W.K. Doyle, O. Devinsky, D. Friedman, T. Thesen, and V. Gilja, “Patient-Specific Pose Estimation in a Clinical Environment,” SoCal Machine Learning Symposium, USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, 2017.
P. Gabriel, A. Alasfour, K. Chen, W.K. Doyle, D. Friedman, T. Thesen, and V. Gilja, “Neural Correlates to Automatic Behavior Estimations from RGB-D Video in Epilepsy Unit,” Research Expo, UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, La Jolla, CA, 2016.
K. Chen and J. Larson, “Towards an Autonomous Unmanned Surface Vehicle,” Team Internship Program Expo, UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, La Jolla, 2015.

Chen, K. J. (2018). Continuous Behavior Acquisition in Clinical Environments. UC San Diego. ProQuest ID: Chen_ucsd_0033M_17526. Merritt ID: ark:/13030/m56m848q. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/48b422s9

K. Chen and M.L. Yin, “ECE 114: C for engineers,” Course textbook, Cal Poly Pomona College of Engineering, Pomona, CA, 2013.

L. Nguyen, D. Khosla, Y. Chen, and K. Chen, “Real-time people detection and counting in cluttered environments using pose and background modeling,” U.S. Filed 2019, Patent Pending.