Andrew Jong

RI Squirrel Hill Office

1723 Murray Ave

Pittsburgh, PA 15217

Hi, I’m Andrew! I’m a 3rd year PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute. I work on making robots able to learn and adapt to risk in the wild. I’m particularly interested in how robots can predict and characterize risk, and how we can steer robots to follow our risk-related preferences.

My projects have included firefighting, search and rescue, and agile flight.

Over the years I’ve had the pleasure to work with Dr. Sebastian Scherer and Dr. Katia Sycara.

Mentorship has been a hallmark of my career, having guided over two dozen undergrad to master’s students and four teams from CMU’s Master’s in Systems Robotics Development program.

I previously earned my MS in Robotics from CMU and BS in Computer Science from San Jose State University.

If you’d like to chat, please feel free to shoot me an email.

news

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selected publications

PhysRev

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?

A. Einstein^*†, B. Podolsky^*, and N. Rosen^*

Phys. Rev., New Jersey. More Information can be found here , May 1935

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In a complete theory there is an element corresponding to each element of reality. A sufficient condition for the reality of a physical quantity is the possibility of predicting it with certainty, without disturbing the system. In quantum mechanics in the case of two physical quantities described by non-commuting operators, the knowledge of one precludes the knowledge of the other. Then either (1) the description of reality given by the wave function in quantum mechanics is not complete or (2) these two quantities cannot have simultaneous reality. Consideration of the problem of making predictions concerning a system on the basis of measurements made on another system that had previously interacted with it leads to the result that if (1) is false then (2) is also false. One is thus led to conclude that the description of reality as given by a wave function is not complete.