Alvin Zou
Robotics Autonomy Engineer at FieldAI
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolAlvin Zou is a Robotics Autonomy Engineer at FieldAI with six years of experience bridging research and production systems in mobile robotics and autonomous vehicles. He completed an MS in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon under Maxim Likhachev, where he invented "attractors," a compact representation that sparsifies the Closed list to cut memory use in best-first search and explored its potential to speed up search. His background spans planning and heuristic search, machine learning for resource prediction, and building analytics dashboards on AWS, showing comfort across algorithms, ML models, and cloud infrastructure. Based in Pittsburgh, he combines academic rigor with practical deployment experience and a particular interest in multi-agent systems and scalable autonomy solutions.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Robotics, Master of Science - MS Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (16)
open-source10
javascript9
chrome-extension6
firefox-addon6
browser-extension5
webextension5
chrome4
firefox3
typescript3
predict3
ai2
css1
spotify1
nodejs1
liquid1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
happinyz/Lofi-Prediction-Model
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Analyzing over a thousand lofi songs on Spotify to predict if a song will fit into the lofi category
Contributions:8 PRs, 24 pushes, 11 branches in 3 days
analyzingsongcategorysongsfit
happinyz/pearai-app
May 2024 - Jun 2024
The Best AI-Powered Text Editor Made By Coders, For Coders. A fork of VSCode.
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 9 days
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