Samuel Chua

Hello! My name is Samuel Chua, and I am a first-year Robotics Masters student at the University of Pennsylvania. I believe in exploring the unknown and very much enjoy the thrill of learning through curiosity!

My research interests stem from autonomous robots to topics such as vision-language models, agile autonomy, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), computer vision, perception and field robotics.

In Summer 2025, I was a SDE intern at Amazon with the Foundational People Data Services (FPDS) team and worked on a centralized AWS DynamoDB data transformation mechanism to generate real-time data representations.

I received my B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering from UCLA in 2025. I worked with Professor Brett Lopez in VECTR Lab on SLAM and change detection and with Professor Ankur Mehta in LEMUR Lab on Deep Reinforcement Learning.