# Quincy C.

> ML at Waymo

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/quincyc

ML Perception and Planner for Autonomous Vehicles.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer, Planner @ Waymo
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
ML Planner

### Senior Machine Learning Engineer @ Toyota Research Institute
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Led end-to-end development of Traffic Light Detector System, from model architecture design, distributed training, data workflows to fleet deployment for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics showcase. This system secured 5+ patents.
- Researched end-to-end Semi-Supervised Learning paradigm for Vision Detectors, achieving better performance over supervised baselines using only 1% labeled data on a petabyte-scale dataset.
- Built TRI’s Autonomous MLOps ecosystem, streamlined data workflows, codified and open-sourced Dataset Governance Policy (DGP), and hyperparameters tuning to standardize ML lifecycle across global Toyota teams and external partners.

### Senior Engineer, Automated Driving Perception @ HERE Technologies
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Chicago Area
- Standardized ML development by architecting a generic framework for TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Caffe, significantly reducing time-to-production.
- Improved lane marking detection accuracy by 10% by designing ML models using LiDAR and image sensor fusion, and streamlining data processing to boost ML flywheel.

### Robotics Software Intern @ Energid Technologies
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater Boston
- Achieved 94% grasping success by developing a 3D object pose estimation algorithm optimized for sub-millimeter precision.
- Reduced robotic arm positional errors 10x by optimizing calibration algorithms.

### Helicopter Mechanic @ Taiwan Naval Aviation Command
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Kaohsiung City
Maintained Helicopter Sikorsky S-70C(M) and ensured it was safe for flight as part of military service.


## Education
### Master of Science
Carnegie Mellon University

### Coursework toward Master's Degree
National Taiwan University

### Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering
National Cheng Kung University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12