About
I am an engineer and researcher working on motion planning for autonomous driving and robotics. My focus is trajectory optimization, onboard planning systems, and bringing research algorithms into production autonomy stacks.
Experience
- Oct 2023 – Present
Staff Engineer, Planning, Autonomy · Rivian Automotive
Motion planning for autonomous driving systems.
- Jan 2021 – Oct 2023
Senior Staff Engineer, Tech Lead in Planning · XPeng
Tech lead for planning, deployment of XPeng's HNGP, CNGP and XNGP · Exceptional New-XPENGERS Award, 2021.
- Sep 2019 – Jan 2021
Senior Robotics Engineer · Cruise Automation
Planning for robo taxis.
- Jul 2016 – Sep 2019
Senior Architect / Architect / Senior Research Engineer · Baidu USA
Led R&D of motion planning algorithms and integration into the Apollo open source platform.
- Jul 2015 – Jul 2016
Autonomous Driving R&D Engineer · Bosch Research & Technology Center
Driving assistant system for highway.
Education
- 2015
Ph.D. in Computer Science · Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Thesis: Knowledge Driven Motion Planning · Advisor: Kris Hauser
- 2010
M.S. in Computer Science · Indiana University Bloomington, USA
- 2008
B.E. in Software Engineering · Nankai University, China