Qiang Z
Research Scientist at Waymo LLC
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Zhu is a software engineer with 12 years of experience blending research-grade algorithms and production engineering, currently a Software Engineer II at Google in Toronto. He holds a Master's in Computer Science from Simon Fraser and a PhD background working on event-based camera algorithms, which informs his strengths in computer vision, deep learning, and algorithm design. Alex has moved from research assistant roles into impactful engineering positions at Google, contributing to Ads Privacy and experiment infrastructure as well as visualization tooling during internships. Proficient across Java, C++, Python, and TypeScript, he bridges low-level systems thinking with large-scale product needs. Colleagues describe him as someone who translates complex research ideas into reliable, production-ready systems.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.7/4.3, rank: 6/82, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.7/4.3, rank: 6/82 at University of Science and Technology of ChinaMaster's degree, Computer Science, 3.8/4.0, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.8/4.0 at Simon Fraser University
Github Skills (28)
zoneminder10
camera10
feature-tracking10
optical-flow10
stereo10
ros-node10
matlab9
autonomous-driving9
ros9
odometry8
image-processing8
alex7
python7
arxiv5
point-cloud5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
daniilidis-group/mvsec
Sep 2017 - Oct 2019
Multi Vehicle Stereo Event Camera Dataset
Contributions:83 commits, 4 PRs, 74 pushes in 2 years 1 month
zoneminderstereocameradatasetvehicle
daniilidis-group/EV-FlowNet
Jun 2018 - Dec 2019
Code for the paper "EV-FlowNet: Self-Supervised Optical Flow for Event-based Cameras"
Contributions:19 commits, 4 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 5 months
optical-flow
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