Hi all, I'm John. I am a second year graduate student with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Illinois Robotics Group at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). I work in the Human Centered Autonomy Lab, advised by Professor Katie Driggs-Campbell. Before this, I obtained my bachelors degrees in {Computer Engineering; Innovation, Leadership, & Engineering Entreprenuership} also from UIUC.

Generally, my research interests are in Human-Robot Interaction and Human-AI Interaction for social good. I am particularly interested in path planning, multimodal communication, understanding, and decision-making (e.g., visual language, 3D world), for creating assitive robotic systems for people with disabilities

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
jpohov2 [at] illinois [dot] edu
Human Centered Autonomy Lab
GitHub
ORCiD
LinkedIn
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Zhe Huang, John Pohovey, Ananya Yammanuru, and Katherine Driggs-Campbell.
LIT: Large Language Model Driven Intention Tracking for Proactive Human-Robot Collaboration - A Robot Sous-Chef Application
2024 IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) Workshop on Embodied AI [Link]
2024 IEEE/CVF CVPR Workshop on Computer Vision in the Wild [Link] Spotlight Presentation
[arXiv] [BibTex]

Zhe Huang, Hongyu Chen, John Pohovey, and Katherine Driggs-Campbell.
Neural Informed RRT*: Learning-based Path Planning with Point Cloud State Representations under Admissible Ellipsoidal Constraints
2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
[arXiv] [IEEE Xplore] [Project & Videos] [GitHub] [GitHub w/ ROS package] [BibTex]