Summary
Yueh-hua Wu is a Team Lead at AIRoA in Tokyo with a decade of experience bridging cutting-edge research and real-world robotics. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC San Diego and has been a Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research and a Student Researcher at Google DeepMind, focusing on reinforcement learning, embodied intelligence, and robust object manipulation. His work emphasizes learning from rich 3D structure and leveraging foundation models to accelerate deployment in real-world robotic systems. Yueh-hua has a strong internship and collaboration history across Sony, RIKEN, OMRON SINIC X, and Academia Sinica, where he developed novel multi-agent and offline RL techniques that improved cooperative manipulation. Fluent in both academic rigor and product-driven research, he blends theoretical innovation with practical system-building across industry and lab settings. Based in Japan with roots in Taiwan, he often connects cross-cultural research teams to move embodied AI from simulation into physical environments.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Master's degree, Computer Science and Information Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University
National Tainan First Senior High School
English, Chinese, Mandarin, Japanese