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Last Update: 02/19/2026

Contact Information

Name Sanghun Jung
Professional Title Ph.D. Candidate
Email shjung13 [at] cs.washington.edu

Professional Summary

I am a fourth-year PhD candidate at the University of Washington, where I am advised by Byron Boots. I am interested in visual learning for robotics, bridging the gap between visual perception and robot planning/control. My recent research covers general robot perceptions problems in robot navigation including vision-language to navigation, traversability prediction from visual cues by self-supervision and representation learning from LiDAR and images.

Experience

  • Jun. 2026 - Sep. 2026

    Mountain View, CA

    Research Scientist Intern
    Waymo
    Advancing perception foundation models for autonomous driving
  • Jun. 2025 - Sep. 2025

    Sunnyvale, CA

    Applied Scientist Intern
    Amazon Lab126
    Conducted research on VLA for improving robotic manipulation tasks
  • Jun. 2024 - Sep. 2024

    Bellevue, WA

    Applied Scientist Intern
    Amazon Lab126
    Conducted research on open-vocabulary indoor 3D instance segmentation, published at ICCV’25
  • 2018 - 2020

    Redwood City / Seoul

    Robotics Engineer
    Bear Robotics
    Conducted projects on velocity control, sensor calibration, localization

Education

  • 2022 - present

    Seattle, WA

    Ph. D.
    University of Washington
    Computer Science and Engineering
  • 2020 - 2022

    Seoul, KR

    M.S.
    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
    Artificial Intelligence
  • 2013 - 2019

    Seoul, KR

    B.S.
    Korea University
    Computer Science and Engineering

Languages

Korean : Native speaker
English : Fluent