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Choulsoo Jang is a robotics software researcher whose career has centered on building the architectural foundations that make intelligent service robots more practical, modular, and maintainable. He is best known for his pioneering work on the Open Platform for Robotic Services (OPRoS), a component-based robot software framework that has garnered over 100 citations since its publication in 2010 — a testament to its lasting influence on the field. By championing reusable, interoperable software components, Jang helped establish design principles that reduce development time and maintenance costs across diverse robotic applications. His early work on software component frameworks for robotic services and cooperative multi-robot localization laid the groundwork for these contributions, while subsequent research tackled real-time execution support and heterogeneous integration between OPRoS and ROS. In more recent years, Jang has extended his focus toward emerging paradigms, including AI model-sharing via containerized modular robots, software-defined robotics, and human-care robot systems for elderly populations — reflecting a thoughtful evolution from infrastructure-level engineering to human-centered applications. His body of work offers students and researchers an instructive trajectory from foundational platform design to the socially meaningful deployment of intelligent robotic services.