# Michael Jae-Yoon Chung

> Software Engineer

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michaeljaeyoonchung

I build tools for programming & operating robots.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Motional
Jan 2024 – Present | Greater Seattle Area
Testing services team, simulation tooling
* Built a new application layer for HIL infrastructure, reducing average test duration by 50%.
* Improved reliability to integrate HIL into mainline CI/CD, enabling gating using resimulation latencies.
* Delivered an observability data pipeline, delivering insights for leadership and accelerating debugging.

### Advisor @ Transitive Robotics
Jan 2023 – Present | Greater Seattle Area

### Senior Robotics Engineer @ Intrinsic
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Greater Seattle Area
* Worked on an intelligent robotics platform, e.g., (1) IDE-based developer tools and (2) simulation-based testing tools.

### Senior Robotics Engineer @ Vicarious
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Greater Seattle Area
Vicarious was acquired by Intrinsic in May, 2022. More information about the acquisition can be found at https://intrinsic.ai/blog/posts/mission-momentum/.

* Led the effort to adopt service-oriented architecture to deployed robot applications and then collaborated to deliver human-machine interface integration, containerization, and application management command-line tools.
* Collaborated with Grasping, Motion Planning and Control teams to design, plan, and adopt service-oriented architecture on deployed components to improve application initialization/execution speed, robustness, and isolation.
* Designed and prototyped a line simulation testing system for testing robot fleet-level applications.

### Research Assistant @ University of Washington
Jan 2011 – Jan 2020 | Greater Seattle Area
* Designed, built, and 3+ evaluated robot programming systems for non-roboticist developers with inspirations drawn from programming languages research and web development communities' work.
* Built and deployed end-to-end mobile robot and robot manipulator applications by reusing existing perception, planning and control, and UI components; evaluated the applications by conducting user studies.
* Communicated insights in 20+ publications and 10+ presentations at major robotics conferences.
* Recruited, trained, and mentored 14 undergraduate students and co-authored 5+ academic papers with 7 of them; two students started their own research projects which resulted in academic publications.

### Robotics Application Engineer @ Savioke
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Jose, California, United States
* Contributed to developing and maintaining on-board and desktop application backends (e.g., single and multi-robot behavior management systems) and support infrastructure (e.g., configuration and notification management systems) that were deployed to 50+ mobile robots.
* Deployed a non-roboticist-friendly robot programming system and used it for collaborating with partner companies including an airport management company in Southeast Asia.
* Explored new mobile robot applications using techniques adopted from product design research, which resulted in beta applications and academic publications.


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy - PhD in Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington

### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Washington


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michaeljaeyoonchung
- Website: https://mjyc.github.io/

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Last updated: 2026-03-23