Juan Rojas
Associate Professor
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolJuan Rojas is an Associate Professor and robotics researcher with nine years of experience building probabilistic models that help robots understand and interact with humans and the environment, with a focus on manipulation and recovery from errors. He has held academic and research positions across the U.S., China, and Hong Kong, including roles as Principal Investigator developing commercial smart bin-picking systems and Research Assistant Professor at CUHK. His work bridges theory and practice—combining probabilistic modeling, efficient learning, and hands-on integration with platforms from Atlas to Baxter—to make robotic skills more transferable and computationally efficient. Juan’s engineering background is rooted in a Vanderbilt Ph.D. in robotics and long experience integrating hardware and control systems, and he has taught a wide range of engineering and math courses to honors students. He is based in Nashville and maintains an online portfolio showcasing his research and projects. An often-overlooked strength is his experience designing educational robotics frameworks to teach STEM, reflecting a commitment to both cutting-edge research and practical pedagogy.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
I.B., STEM, I.B., STEM at Green Gates SchoolPh.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering (Robotics), Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering (Robotics) at Vanderbilt University
English, Spanish, French, Chinese
Github Skills (3)
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java4
javascript1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jrojas10/SEL-Student-Exchange-Library
Mar 2018 - Oct 2021
Contributions:64 commits, 32 PRs, 36 pushes in 3 years 7 months
javaexchange
jrojas10/SEL-APP
Oct 2018 - Oct 2021
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 3 years
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