Jo Chuang
Software Engineer specializing in Machine Learning and Robotics
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Sunnyvale, California
Joined December 2025
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Summary
Jo Chuang is a dedicated Software Engineer with a strong background in Machine Learning, particularly in areas of vision-and-language navigation and robotics. His work at Waymo involved developing advanced machine learning solutions for self-driving technology, and he further honed his skills through significant research contributions at Stanford University and Google. myparaply+2
His academic career includes a Master's from Stanford and a Bachelor's from Cornell, both in Computer Science. During his graduate studies, he was actively involved in pioneering projects like Jackrabbot at Stanford, which focused on social navigation robotics, and contributed to multiple research publications in the field of AI and computer vision. jochuang+2
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Topological Planning with Transformers for Vision-and-Language Navigation
January 1, 2021Co-authored a paper that proposes a modular approach to Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) using topological maps, leveraging attention mechanisms to predict navigation plans.
JIT-Masker: Efficient Online Distillation for Background Matting
January 1, 2020Co-authored a paper on designing a real-time portrait matting pipeline for applications like virtual backgrounds in video conferences, focusing on throughput and efficiency.
ParaNet-Using Dense Blocks for Early Inference
January 1, 2018Co-authored a paper on ParaNet, a method using dense blocks for early inference.