# Yanda Huang

> Software Engineer at Aurora

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yanda

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Aurora
Jan 2019 – Present | Palo Alto

### Perception Engineer Intern @ Aurora
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Pittsburgh Area

### Research Assistant @ Cognitive Assistance Lab
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
Worked on Cabot, which is an assistive robot to help visually impaired users navigate through a new environment with BLE beacon, lidar and vision.
• Designed and built the whole system architecture and pipeline with ROS, including pedestrian detection with Kinect One, navigation stack and other human-robot-interaction components

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Crowds and Machines (CROMA) Lab
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Ann Arbor
Worked on the EUREKA: Enhancing Understanding of Real Environments using Knowledge from crowd Assistance system, utilizing crowd power to tag point clouds got from robots.
- Proposed and implemented smart selection filter using Kernel Density Estimation that eliminates accidentally added points, improving average crowd selection time by more than 20%.
- Proposed and implemented smart selection filler that predicts potentially wanted points using bushfire algorithm and k-dimension tree, which is 2000% faster than the previous method.

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Seattle
- Built the UX screen for creating content strategies of Amazon Video with AngularJS 1.x, which is the main entry for all the merchandizers to edit and view the strategies.
- Created a visualize collapsible tree from scratch for metadata in a database using D3.js. The tree is used by developers in Amazon internally to help debug the data in the database.

### Student Electrical Design Engineer @ BGM Engineering Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Ann Arbor
- Developed the whole firmware of the microcontroller on a coffee machine so that users can use mobile phones to control the coffee machine through Near Field Communication interface. This helps filling Patent US20170170874A1
- Designed the control board circuit and helped PCB design.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Robotics System Development
Carnegie Mellon University

### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering
University of Michigan

### Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Shanghai Jiao Tong University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yanda-huang-21a372108
- Portfolio: http://yodahuang.github.io

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Last updated: 2026-03-29