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Myung Jin Chung is a pioneering robotics researcher whose career spans foundational work in robot control, motion planning, and human-robot interaction. With expertise rooted in adaptive and robust control theory, Chung made early and enduring contributions to manipulator control, developing adaptive strategies that enable robot arms to accurately track desired trajectories despite parameter uncertainties and nonlinear dynamics — work that dates to the early 1980s and continues to draw scholarly attention across decades. A defining thread in Chung's research is safe multi-robot operation. His collision avoidance frameworks, employing minimum distance functions and polyhedral link approximations, provided practical, computationally tractable solutions for coordinating multiple robot arms in shared workspaces, earning nearly 90 citations for the 1994 time-delay method alone. His teleoperation work further advanced stable, transparent master-slave systems through adaptive control, accumulating over 75 citations. Later in his career, Chung turned toward socially intelligent robotics, contributing influential models for facial expression design, emotion recognition, and human-robot emotional interaction in service robots. His linear affect-expression space model offered designers a principled framework for expressive robotic faces. Altogether, Chung's body of work — spanning over 500 total citations — reflects a cohesive vision of robots that are safe, controllable, and genuinely capable of meaningful human engagement.