Ante Qu
Staff Software Engineer at Waymo
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnte Qu is a Staff Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with a PhD and 11 years of engineering experience focused on motion planning, physics simulation, and high-performance C++ systems. He has 5.5 years productionizing motion planners at Waymo and prior research in yarn-level cloth, contact modeling, and acoustic synthesis, blending deep simulation theory with pragmatic product delivery. His toolkit spans 10 years of C++ (including AVX512 SIMD and CUDA), contributions to the Drake robotics library, and a track record of adding robust implicit integrators and contact-geometry visualization. Comfortable navigating complex organizational tradeoffs, he pairs rigorous research instincts with hands-on optimization for real-world autonomy stacks. An uncommonly practical researcher, he routinely converts sophisticated numerical methods into tested, production-quality components used in safety-critical robotics.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Stanford UniversityUniversity of OxfordBachelor of Arts (BA), Physics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Physics at Princeton University
French
Github Skills (8)
c-language10
robotics10
cprogramming-language10
numerical-integration10
testing9
python9
algorithms8
automatic-differentiation8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
RobotLocomotion/drake
Jul 2019 - Jun 2020
Model-based design and verification for robotics.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 29 PRs, 7 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ante contributed to the `drake` robotics library by improving the visualization of contact geometry and implementing checks and refactoring implicit integration tests. They refactored convergence checks within Newton-Raphson iterations for the implicit integrators, moving the logic to a common location. The user also added an implementation for a fixed-step velocity-implicit Euler integrator.
model-basedmodel-based-designroboticsdrakeverification
antequ/antequ.github.io
Jul 2019 - Sep 2021
Ante Qu's Personal Website
Contributions:10 PRs, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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