# Charles X.

> Software Engineer | Robotics Enthusiast | IEEE TVT and Multimedia reviewer | IEEE VTS member

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/charlesx

Hacker, Inventor, Innovator

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Plus
Jan 2024 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc.
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
*OTA algorithm development and integration
*Cross-compiling and porting third-party libraries

### AD/ADAS Software Engineer @ U Power
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
* Setup simulation pipeline based on open source simulator, enabled verification of lane detection network and planning tasks
* Developed and maintained CUDA-based point cloud preprocessing package, reduced pipeline latency by more than 10 times
* Co-developed and maintained ROS2 driver package for Continental Radars and point cloud segmentation package for perception stack, enabled close-range obstacle detection (verified on recorded vehicle data)
* Developed multi-threaded ROS2 mission management package for urban autonomy demo, enabled visualization of high-level mission command and vehicle status

### Machine Learning Intern @ Mavenir
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Richardson, Texas, United States
* Worked on factory robotics project, developed a YOLO-based ROS package for water bottle detection and motion planning of affordable robotic arms, achieved more than 60% success rate

### Hardware Engineer Intern @ Ratlab LLC
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
* Developed neural network based algorithms for the consumer electronic product with Pytorch in Python, deployed on ARM-based microcontroller with Tensorflow Lite, achieved more than 85% classification accuracy in breathing detection

### Research Assistant @ GTSR lab
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States
* Designed the ultra-compact mechatronics system for GT-MAB 2.0 in Solidworks and Eagle CAD
* Optimized the firmware , reduced communication latency by more than 150 times with embedded C on Nordic microcontroller
* Co-invented two patents, co-authored paper was awarded ”Best Student Paper Award” in AIM 2021


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
University of Washington

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (Theory + Intelligence)
Georgia Institute of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zheyuanxu-86a494b1
- Website: https://charlesxu1124.github.io

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Last updated: 2026-04-01