My name is Jianan Zhu and I am currently working at Pony.ai Inc as a software Engineer working on Planning for autonomous truck. I received my Ph.D. degree in 2020 in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at UC, Irvine and received my bachelor degree at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Experience

Pony.aiSoftware Engineer

2020 — Now

Fremont, California, United States

UC IrvineGraduate Research Assistant

2016 — 2020

Developed novel localization algorithms for multi-agent systems under GNSS-denied environments which resulted in consistent estimation with better accuracy and less communication cost

Devised real-time software/hardware systems for different agents with a variety of sensing technologies

Collaborated with 3 university faculties and 5 graduate students from 3 different laboratories

Mentored 3 undergraduate students on different navigation-related research projects and one of the students won UCI UROP grant

UC IrvineTeaching Assistant

2014 — 2016

Irvine, California, United States