Brian Wang
Staff Software Engineer - Spot Autonomy at Boston Dynamics
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Wang is a staff software engineer specializing in robotic perception, localization, and planning, currently leading autonomy work for Spot at Boston Dynamics. He holds a Ph.D. from Cornell where his Autonomous Systems Lab research tackled perception and path planning under uncertainty, and he has eight years of experience shipping autonomy for aerial, underwater, and legged platforms. Brian has architected robust localization systems for challenging environments—most recently for a climbing hull-cleaning robot—and previously developed vision-based control for quadrotors and teaching materials for Cornell’s Autonomous Mobile Robots course. Based in Somerville, MA, he blends rigorous academic foundations with production engineering, favoring sensor-fusion solutions that perform reliably in unstructured, real-world conditions.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Cornell University
Github Skills (27)
lidar10
segmentation9
trajectory-optimization9
point-cloud8
catkin8
imu8
rviz8
algorithm7
rosbag7
3d-object-detection7
ros7
slam6
3d6
visual6
datasets5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
brian-h-wang/ldls_ros
May 2019 - Aug 2020
ROS code for LDLS (Label Diffusion Lidar Segmentation)
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 2 months
lidarrossegmentation
brian-h-wang/delaunay-probabilistic-planner
Aug 2023 - Sep 2025
Multiple hypothesis planning with uncertain object detections
Contributions:8 PRs, 32 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 1 month
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