Brian Zhang
Visiting Research Student at The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolBrian Zhang is a software engineer and researcher specializing in backend systems and machine learning, currently a Visiting Research Student at UBC working on flow matching for motion prediction (IROS 2025). With 11 years of experience and internships at Tesla, Waabi, Apple, and other tech firms, he blends academic research with production-focused autonomy and perception work for self-driving systems. He contributes to open-source tooling for iOS (notably enabling Sidecar on unsupported devices) and builds robots at 1x-technologies, reflecting a hands-on curiosity across hardware and software. His background spans full-stack backend APIs, ML for fraud detection, and 3D scene generation with NVIDIA Omniverse, showing comfort across the stack from system-level patches to large-scale vision models. Based in Vancouver, he pairs rigorous engineering with creative pursuits—piano, trumpet, and chess—which he credits for sharpening problem-solving and pattern recognition.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Lord Byng Secondary SchoolSummer College Program, Summer College Program at Stanford UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (15)
swift10
user-interface10
ios10
macos9
regular-expression9
html6
ajax6
vim6
css6
nixpkgs6
react-router6
javascript6
jquery6
react6
ecmascript6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
ben-z/free-sidecar
Oct 2019 - Nov 2020
Enable Sidecar on Unsupported iPads and Macs running iPadOS 13 and macOS Catalina
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:3 releases, 94 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributes to a Swift-based application focused on enabling Sidecar functionality on unsupported iPads and Macs. Their work includes developing the user interface, particularly buttons and text fields, as well as integrating with system-level commands. They are responsible for implementing the core logic for patching system files and enabling/disabling sidecar. The user's changes also involve regular expression adjustments for device matching within the utility functions.
sidecaripadiphonecatalinaipados
ben-z/3D-Models-Physics-12
Feb 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:37 commits, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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