# Jinglin Li

> Autonomous Driving Engineer

Location: Los Altos, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jinglinli

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.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Woven by Toyota
Jan 2022 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States
Autonomous Driving -- Release and Product Delivery

### Senior Research Scientist @ Toyota Research Institute
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | United States
Autonomous Driving & Robotics

### Senior Researcher @ General Motors
Jan 2018 – Jan 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.

### Researcher @ General Motors
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | GM Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, USA

### Research assistant @ UNC Charlotte
Jan 2010 – Jan 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).

### Summer Intern @ General Motors
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | GM Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, USA
Research project: Dexterous In-hand Manipulation Planning. The objective is to design and develop novel algorithms to reorient or reposition an object in-hand by planning finger motions and rearranging the hand-object contacts.


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
Beijing Jiaotong University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jinglinli

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Last updated: 2026-04-12