Fu-jen Chu
Senior Research Scientist at Facebook
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFu-jen Chu is a Senior Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research with eight years of experience bridging robotics, computer vision, and deep learning, and a Ph.D. from Georgia Tech. His work spans applied research and systems implementation—ranging from egocentric robot-arm control with ROS and real-time embedded pedestrian detectors to multi-body structure-from-motion for autonomous navigation. He has a strong background in C++, Python, MATLAB, ROS, and practical deployment on embedded platforms like Nvidia Jetson and TI ADAS processors. Fu-jen combines academic rigor with production-minded engineering, having led projects that integrate AR feedback, kinematics, and visual perception into assistive robotics. Based in Menlo Park, he brings both research leadership at FAIR and hands-on experience from diverse labs and industry internships, often optimizing algorithms for real-time constraints. His portfolio reflects a consistent focus on making perception and control algorithms work reliably in the real world, not just in simulation.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering, 4.0/4.0, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering, 4.0/4.0 at National Taiwan UniversityMaster’s Degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 3.8/4.0, Master’s Degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 3.8/4.0 at University of MichiganDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Institute of Robotics & Intelligent Machine, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Institute of Robotics & Intelligent Machine at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (31)
grasp10
robotics10
bounding-box9
simulation9
matlab-gui9
segmentation8
keypoint8
annotations7
object-detection6
vision-transformer6
pytorch6
faster-rcnn5
transformer5
openmmlab4
deep-learning4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
fujenchu/fujenchu.github.io
Feb 2020 - Jun 2026
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
ivalab/simData_imgSaver
May 2018 - Mar 2019
This repo contains tools to save images of simulated objects in Gazebo for affordance segmentation
Contributions:20 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
segmentationaffordanceicra2019ra-l
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