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Mechanical Engineering

Faculty

Choi, Jongseong Brad/ 최종성 img
Choi, Jongseong Brad/ 최종성
  • PositionAssistant Professor
  • OfficeRoom B625
  • Phone032-626-1811
  • Emailjongseong.choi@stonybrook.edu
  • Websitehttps://www.meic-lab.com/
  • Research AreasPurdue University, Ph.D., 2020

Jongseong Brad Choi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the State University of New York, Korea (SUNY Korea), Stony Brook University, where he directs Mechanical Systems with Intelligence and Computer Vision Laboratory (MEIC Lab). Dr. Choi’s research aims to advance the integration of artificial intelligence with hardware engineering by combining computer vision, multimodal sensing, neural rendering, 3D perception, and digital twin technologies. Since 2017, he has led pioneering research projects supported by the NSF, NASA, the European Union, and the NRF, resulting in over 100 publications in journals and conferences on visual intelligence and 3D perception. His research portfolio features extensive collaborations with government and industry partners, with cumulative grant funding exceeding USD 3.5 million (sole portion) over the past five years. He has received multiple honors, including the Prospective Scientist Awards from KSME (2025) and KSPHM (2023). Dr. Choi currently serves as an Associate Editor for the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics and as Chair of a committee within the KSME. More information can be found on his website:

Education:

  • 2020, Ph.D., Purdue University, Mechanical Engineering
  • 2014, M.S., University of Mississippi, Mechanical Engineering
  • 2012, B.S., University of Mississippi, Mechanical Engineering

Experience:

  • 2020.08 – Pres, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, SUNY Korea, Incheon, South Korea
  • 2021.09 – Pres, Affiliated Faculty (Courtesy), Department of Mechanical Engineering, SUNY Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
  • 2025.12 – Pres, Founder & CEO, MEIC AI Co., Ltd., Incheon, South Korea
  • 2014.08 – 2020.05, Research Assistant, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
  • 2012.08 – 2014.05, Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Mississippi, University, MS, USA

Professional Position:

  • 2025.10 – Pres, Associated Editor, ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, New Jersey, NY, USA
  • 2022 – Pres, Chair Committee, Board of Finance, The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (KSME) – Division of Reliability Engineering, South Korea.
  • 2021 – Pres, Chair Committee, Board of Education, Korea Society for Prognostics and Health Monitoring (KSPHM), South Korea.

Course Taught:

  • ME 559: (Graduate Course) Mobile Robotics and Autonomous Vehicle – Computer Vision and Control
  • ME 510: (Graduate Course) Object-Oriented Programming for Scientists and Engineers – Visual Analytics and Sensing
  • ME 410: Design of Machine Elements
  • ME 363: Mechanics of Solids
  • ME 320: Numerical Methods in Engineering Design and Analysis
  • ME 301: Thermodynamics

 

Research Area: Machine Vision; Neural Scene Representation; Physics-Informed AI; Multimodal Spatial AI; Simulation-to-Real Learning; Physical-AI; Human-in-the-loop Robotics; PHM; SHM

Representative Research Grants:

Since joining SUNY Korea in August 2020, Dr. Choi has secured the total research grant as sole portion of 4,223 million KRW (42억원), equivalent to 3,519k USD). Selected grants are below:

  • 2025 Excellent Young Researcher Program (우수신진연구) (PI), supported by NRF (한국연구재단 우수신진연구). Funding awarded: $1,006,541 USD (12억원) for a research project entitled “True Twin: AI-based Hyper-Realistic Industrial Digital Twin for Distributed Collaborative and Predictive Facility Maintenance in Mixed Reality.” (2025 한국연구재단 우수신진연구 선정; equivalent to NSF CAREER), Mar 2025 – Feb 2029
  • Advanced GPU Utilization Support Program (PI), supported by NIPA (정보통신산업진흥원). Award of two of B200 GPUs, Apr 2026
  • 2026 strategic Research Program (SRP, 2026년도 국가전략연구사업) (co-PI), supported by NST (국가과학기술연구회). Funding Awarded: requested (sole portion): $316,667 (3.8억원) for research entitled “Development of a Data-Driven Construction-Site-Specific AX Framework and Sustainable Platform (K-CAX)”, Total consortium grant of $32.6M (391 억원), May 2026 – Dec 2030
  • 2026 Future PAN Technology Program (미래 판기술 프로젝트 사업) (co-PI), supported by MOTIR (산업통상부). Funding Awarded: $50,000 (0.6 억원) for research entitled "Development of a Real-World–Integrated Spatial Intelligence Platform Based on Multimodal 3D Scene Generation and a Superintelligent Operation Engine", Total consortium grant of $20.6M (247 억원 ), Apr 2026 – Dec 2026
  • 2026 National ICT R&D and Standardization Support Program (2026년도 제1차 정보통신방송 기술개발사업 및 표준개발지원사업) (co-PI), supported by IITP(정보통신기획평가원). Funding Awarded: $416,667 (5 억원) for research entitled “Development of Real–Virtual Synchronization Technology Between Digital Objects for Large-Scale Ultra-Realistic XR Implementation”. Total consortium grant of $4.58M (55 억원), Apr 2026 – Dec 2028
  • 2026 National ICT R&D and Standardization Support Program (2026년도 제1차 정보통신방송 기술개발사업 및 표준개발지원사업) (co-PI) supported by IITP(정보통신기획평가원). Funding Awarded: $225,000 (2.7 억원) for research entitled “Multimodal AI–Based Automated Large-Scale Neural Rendering for Sim2Real in Physical AI”. Total consortium grant of $1.50M (18 억원), Apr 2026 – Dec 2028
  • 2025 Virtual Convergence Technology Lab. Program (PI), supported by RAPA (한국전파진흥협회). Funding awarded: $568,523 USD (6.8억원) for “MetaReal: Commercialization of Neural Rendering–Based Hyper-Realistic Spatial Information Metaverse Technology.” (2025 가상융합기술랩 선정; 수행 4개대학 – 한국과학기술원, 연세대, 고려대, 한국뉴욕주립대), May 2025 – Dec 2027
  • 2025 Hyundai Motor Company Future Technology Research Program (PI), supported by Hyundai Motor Group (현대자동차그룹). Funding awarded: $55,000 USD (0.7 억원) for a research project entitled “Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN)-Based EV Energy Consumption PHM Model and EV Navigation System Development.” (2025 현대자동차 미래기술공모과제 선정), May 2025 – Dec 2025
  • Space Exploration and In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) Core Technology Research Center Program (Co-PI), supported by KASA (한국우주항공청). Funding awarded: $395,833 USD (KRW 4.8 억원) for a research project entitled “Space Exploration and In-Situ Resource Utilization Center (SRC).”, Total consortium grant of $9.83M (118 억원), Apr 2022 – Dec 2026

Representative Publications:

  • Jeewon Lee and Jongseong Choi* (2026), Micro-Splatting: Multistage Isotropy-informed Covariance Regularization Optimization for High-Fidelity 3D Gaussian Splatting, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 1-12, (IF: 6.5, JCR top 6.20%)
  • Hanbeom Chang, Jongseong Choi*, Chul Min Yeum (2026), 3D Reconstruction by Looking: Instantaneous Blind Spot Detection for Indoor SLAM through Mixed Reality, Advanced Engineering Informatics 69, 104065 (IF: 9.9, JCR top 2.28%)
  • Hansol Lim, Hanbeom Chang, Jongseong Choi*, Chul Min Yeum (2025), LiDAR-3DGS: LiDAR Reinforcement for multimodal initialization of 3D Gaussian Splats, Computers & Graphics, 104293.
  • Jonathan Boyack and Jongseong Choi* (2025), Photogrammetry Engaged Automated Image Labeling Approach,Visual Informatics, 100239.
  • Jonathan Boyack, Jongseong Choi*, Jongryeol Jeong, Hyungchai Park, and Sewhan Kim (2024), LogPath: Log Data based Energy Consumption Analysis enabling Electric Vehicle Path Optimization, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 135, 104387.
  • Jongseong Choi*, Ju An Park, Shirley J. Dyke, Chul Min Yeum, Xiaoyu Liu, Ali Lenjani, & Ilias Bilionis (2022), Similarity Learning to Enable Buliding Searches in Post-event Image Data, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 37(2), 261-275 (IF: 11.775, JCR top 0.72%)
  • Jongseong Choi*, Lazaros Toumanidis, Chul Min Yeum, Patrikakis Charalampos, Ali Lenjani, Xiaoyu Liu, Panagiotis Kasnesis, Ricardo Ortiz, Nin-Jun Jiang, & Shirley J. Dyke (2022), Automated Graffiti Detection: Automated Graffiti Detection: A Novel Approach for Maintaining Historical Architectures in Community, Applied Sciences, 12(6), 2983 (IF: 2.679, JCR top 42.2%)
  • Jongseong Choi & Shirley J. Dyke (2020), CrowdLIM: Crowdsourcing to Enable Lifecycle Infrastructure Management. Computers in Industry, 115, 103185. (IF: 7.635, JCR top 8.10%)

Representative Patents:

  • METHOD OF ESTIMATING DYNAMIC COEFFICIENT OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND PREDICTING ENERGY CONSUMPTION BY UTILIZING SPEED LOG DATA AND PHYSICS-INFORMED NEURAL NETWORK, Jongseong Choi*, filed at the United States in Aug 2025 (19/290,373)
  • COMPUTER VISION TECHNIQUE TO EXTRACT STRUCTURAL INFORMATION FROM CITIZEN SCIENCE DATA: AUTOMATED LIFECYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE MONITORING APPLICATION, Jongseong Choi*, Registered at Republic of Korea in Nov 2025 (10-2025-1068454)
  • SPEED LOG DATA AND PHYSICAL KNOWLEDGE NEURAL NETWORK-BASED ELECTRIC VEHICLE DYNAMIC COEFFICIENT ESTIMATION AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION PREDICTION METHOD, Jongseong Choi*, filed at Republic of Korea in Feb 2025 (10-2025-0017752)
  • GAUSSIAN SPLATTING-BASED LIDAR-RGB MULTI-SENSOR AND RENDERING SYSTEM FOR ULTRA-HIGHRESOLUTIONFACILITY SCANNING AND MODELING, Jongseong Choi*, filed at Republic of Korea in Feb 2025 (10-2025-0017753)
  • A MIXED REALITY DEVICE VISUALIZING THE LIDAR SCANNING ALIGNMENT PROCESS IN THE REAL-WORLD ENVIRONMENT THROUGH AN MR HEADSET, Jongseong Choi*, filed at Republic of Korea in Feb 2025 (10-2021-0017754)
  • 3D GAUSSIAN SPLATTING DIGITAL TWIN PLATFORM, Jongseong Choi*, filed Apr 2025 (10-2025-0046922)
  • DIGITAL TWIN GENERATION SYSTEM FOR VISION-BASED STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING, Jongseong Choi*, filed at Republic of Korea in Apr 2025 (10-2025-0046923)
  • LOG DATA-BASED ELECTRIC VEHICLE ENERGY CONSUMPTION ANALYSIS AND PATH EXPLORATION SYSTEM, Jongseong Choi*, filed at Republic of Korea in Apr 2025 (10-2025-0058452)
  • DIGITAL TWIN-BASED CONSTRUCTION SITE MONITORING SYSTEM USING MOBILE APP PERFORMING LOCAL UPDATE ON MAPPING API, Jongseong Choi*, filed at Republic of Korea in Apr 2025 (10-2025-0058453)

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