Summary
Bocheng Zou is a robotics-focused software engineer and PhD student at UW–Madison with nine years of experience spanning research, systems administration, and applied robotics internships. Currently contributing to Project Chrono Python bindings at SBEL and interning on robotics at Tesla, he blends simulation, vision, and systems tooling to bridge research prototypes and production workflows. His background includes video understanding and vector graphics research, large-scale observability work with Prometheus/Grafana, and cross-institutional research roles in China and the US, highlighting strong interdisciplinary collaboration. Comfortable moving between low-level system improvements and high-level ML/vision research, he often surfaces practical performance and deployment insights that aren’t obvious from paper results alone.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting students - non degree, Computer Science, 4.0, Visiting students - non degree, Computer Science, 4.0 at University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 4.0, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 4.0 at University of Wisconsin-Madison
High School Affiliated to Xian Jiaotong University
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.91, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.91 at Xi'an Jiaotong University