Karen Leung
Director UW Amazon Science Hub at University of Washington - William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolKaren Leung is an academic and research leader specializing in robotics, control theory, and machine learning, with a decade of experience bridging university research and industry. She is Director of the UW+Amazon Science Hub and an Assistant Professor in Aeronautics & Astronautics at the University of Washington, while also holding a faculty scientist role at NVIDIA that keeps her work grounded in real-world ML systems. Her current research focuses on human-robot multi-agent interaction, using unsupervised learning to uncover long-term human behavior modes for safer autonomous vehicles. Trained at Stanford (PhD) and the University of Sydney, she combines rigorous theoretical grounding with hands-on experimentation from internships at Toyota Research Institute and NVIDIA. Beyond research, she is co-president of Stanford Women in Aeronautics and Astronautics, reflecting a sustained commitment to mentorship and diversity in STEM. Outside work she balances technical curiosity with adventurous hobbies—climbing, scuba, sailing and an eye for spotting dogs—which often inspire a human-centered perspective in her research.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
HSC, HSC at Girraween High SchoolUniversity of California, San DiegoThe University of SydneyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Stanford University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (21)
pairwise9
wrapper9
mpc8
reachability8
collision7
julia7
gpu5
machine-learning5
tensorflow4
risk-assessment4
least-squares3
sympy3
game-theory3
solver2
pycall2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
StanfordASL/Pigeon.jl
May 2019 - Jul 2020
MPC trajectory tracking + reachability-based collision avoidance for pairwise vehicle interactions
Contributions:46 commits, 18 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 2 months
reachabilitympctrajectory-trackingpairwisetracking
StanfordASL/stlcg_ctrl_syn
Jul 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:51 commits, 3 pushes in 8 months
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