Chan-Jin Chung

Chan-Jin Chung, born in 1959, is a South Korean-American computer scientist and professor at Lawrence Technological University in Michigan who founded Robofest, an international autonomous robotics competition launched in the 1999-2000 academic year. Under his direction Robofest grew to involve more than 38,000 student participants from eighteen U.S. states and twenty-five countries, and he served as the founding United States national organizer for the World Robot Olympiad in 2014 and 2015. He also initiated the WISER conference on integrating robotics into science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics education in 2014, and has advised Lawrence Tech's Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition teams since 2003. His career has centered on building educational programs that use robotics competitions to draw students into computer science and engineering.