Joewie J. Koh
Senior AI Researcher at MITRE, developing novel solutions for weather mitigation in air traffic management. Personal research interests span deep reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, and interactive AI.
By day, I solve real-world problems with machine learning; by night, I chase my own research questions with coffee. While I’m currently focused on challenges in the aviation domain, I’ve had a brief stint in health IT, and my research has found applications in robotics and educational technology. Before starting the doctoral program at CU Boulder, I worked at a Denver-based startup applying the latest advances in natural language processing to cybersecurity and legal technology.
Grew up in Singapore, spent a decade in the United States, and have now found my way back home. I enjoy running and flying, but tend to keep out of the water. (I do like seaplanes, though.)
News
| Jan 28, 2026 | AAAI 2026 was a blast! Thank you to everyone who came to the AI4AT Workshop, with special thanks to my co-organizers for making it a success! |
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| Sep 8, 2025 | Together with collaborators from I²R (A*STAR), ASI (SUTD), and ATMRI (NTU), I’ll be organizing the inaugural Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Air Transportation (AI4AT) at AAAI 2026! |
| Sep 1, 2025 | Our paper on super-nominal payload manipulation was accepted to CoRL 2025. Our approach allows robots to handle payloads more than 3 times their nominal capacity! See you in Seoul! |
| Dec 15, 2024 | Back in July, I joined MITRE as a Senior AI Researcher in the Singapore R&D center, working to advance air traffic management and aviation safety in the region. Excited for what’s to come! |
| Apr 8, 2024 | Our paper was accepted to the 2024 American Control Conference. Congratulations to my friend and collaborator Chi-Hui on his first lead-author paper as a PhD student! |
| Feb 24, 2024 | Some personal news for a change: I’m now the proud holder of a commercial pilot certificate with ratings to fly three different categories of aircraft — rotorcraft, airplane, and glider! |
| Aug 15, 2023 | This is my last month as a feature editor at XRDS. Many thanks to the editorial team, guest editors, and authors for making my time at XRDS a wonderful experience! |
| Apr 19, 2023 | For the latest issue of XRDS, we interviewed Dr. Amelia Kelly (CTO of SoapBox Labs) to learn about her experience in developing speech recognition technology for children. |
| Mar 30, 2022 | Our survey paper on open-domain dialogue generation was accepted to the 4th Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI (co-located with ACL 2022). |
| Jul 14, 2021 | My proposal to the Trainee Grant Program of the NSF AI Institute for Student–AI Teaming (iSAT) was selected for funding! |
| May 3, 2021 | I’ve joined the editorial board of XRDS as a feature editor. Absolutely thrilled! |
| Apr 8, 2021 | This is my second time volunteering as a judge at the Colorado Science & Engineering Fair, and I was again blown away by the students’ projects. Congratulations to the winners! |
| Mar 10, 2021 | I snagged one of the awards at our department’s annual research expo! |
| Sep 21, 2020 | Our paper on multi-agent reinforcement learning was accepted to IROS 2020! |
| Aug 27, 2020 | CU Boulder will lead a $20 million research collaboration: the NSF AI Institute for Student–AI Teaming. I’m especially excited since I had contributed to the grant proposal. |