Junha Roh
Senior Software Engineer at Third Wave Automation
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJunha Roh is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building perception and autonomy systems, currently developing shared-autonomy solutions for warehouse forklifts at Third Wave Automation. He holds a PhD from the University of Washington (Allen School) where his robotics and vision research focused on vision-language navigation and autonomous driving under advisors Ali Farhadi and Dieter Fox. Junha’s background blends rigorous academic research with applied engineering through internships at Waymo and NEC Labs and a prior researcher role at KIST, giving him deep expertise in behavior prediction, planning, and neural architecture search. Comfortable moving models from papers into production, he pairs strong CV/ML foundations from Seoul National University with hands-on deployment experience in safety-critical robotic systems. Notably, he transitioned directly from cutting-edge research into shipping autonomy features in industrial robotics, a path that highlights both technical depth and pragmatic product impact.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of WashingtonMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Vision, 4.09/4.30, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Vision, 4.09/4.30 at 서울대학교 / Seoul National University
Github Skills (37)
unreal-engine-410
simulator10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
computer-vision10
artificial-intelligence9
robotics9
simulation9
imitation-learning9
alarm9
self-driving-car9
airsim9
ai9
clock9
autonomous-vehicles9
autonomous-driving9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rohjunha/language-grounded-driving
Aug 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:46 commits, 34 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 4 months
rohjunha/language-refer
Jun 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:40 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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