Researcher & Software Engineer with 10+ years of research and development experience in Robotics. Tech lead focused on bringing solutions at the intersection of advanced robotics, computer vision and AI.

Experience

Woven by ToyotaStaff Software Engineer

2022 — Now

Palo Alto, California, United States

Autonomous Driving -- Release and Product Delivery

Toyota Research InstituteSenior Research Scientist

2021 — 2022

United States

Autonomous Driving & Robotics

General MotorsSenior Researcher

2018 — 2021

Greater Detroit Area

Research on advanced robotics technologies to enable next generation manufacturing automation and industry 4.0, including high variety, low volume flexible robotic manufacturing, manufacturing automation, human-robot collaboration and productivity optimization, etc.

General MotorsResearcher

2015 — 2018

GM Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, USA

UNC CharlotteResearch assistant

2010 — 2015

Designing and implementing autonomous manipulation algorithms for a new kind of

bio-inspired robotic manipulators, called Continuum Manipulators, whose arm segments are soft and can continuously deform as an octopus arm. This project is supported by US National Science Foundation Grant (IIS-0904093).

Education

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Beijing Jiaotong University

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Education

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Bachelor of Science (BS)

Experience