Juan Vega
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJuan Vega is a senior roboticist and software engineer with 8 years of cross-sector experience delivering full life-cycle products and academic research in motion planning for underwater robotics, autonomous driving, manipulation, and social navigation. Now a Senior Lecturer and Director of Postgraduate Research at Cardiff University, he leads a human-centred and computational robotics group while bridging teaching, project leadership, and hands-on system development. He combines industry-grade C/C++ and Python engineering (including ROS, OMPL, MoveIt!) with a PhD in Robotics to translate advanced planning algorithms into deployable systems—experience honed at Apple, TNO, and Rice University. Notably, his background spans both safety-critical automated valet parking architectures and AR-enhanced human-robot collaboration, reflecting a rare mix of control, perception and HRI expertise.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Master of Science (MSc), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de MadridBachelor’s Degree, Electronics, Electronics Engineer, Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics, Electronics Engineer at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana CaliDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Technology (Robotics), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Technology (Robotics) at Universitat de Girona
English, Spanish
Github Skills (19)
ompl10
mocap10
moveit10
trajectory-generation9
minecraft9
ros9
motion-planning9
pybullet8
manipulation8
robotics8
env8
planning6
spigot6
plugin6
fetch5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
juandhv/tue-env
Nov 2020 - May 2021
Package manager that can be used to install (ROS) dependencies
Contributions:19 commits, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
dependenciespackage-managerros
juandhv/tue-env-targets
Nov 2020 - Feb 2024
target list for tue-env
Contributions:1 PR, 31 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 3 months
env
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