Charles Zhang
Autopilot ML Engineer at Tesla
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Zhang is an Autopilot ML Engineer at Tesla with nine years of experience building perception and vision systems for autonomous vehicles. A University of Waterloo computer science graduate with a track record at Cruise, Nuro, NVIDIA, and Apple, he focuses on next-generation vision foundation models and sim-to-real generative techniques. His background spans real-time LIDAR detection and tracking, large-scale graph compute work for simulation, and production deployment of 3D detection models. He led a 50-student autonomous vehicle team to a top finish in the SAE Autodrive Challenge, showing hands-on systems leadership in addition to research—coauthoring work on generative sim-to-real transfer. Based in Mountain View, he blends strong academic results (4.0 GPA) with practical experience shipping perception stacks at scale.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Lisgar Collegiate InstituteBachelor's degree, Computer Science, 94%, 4.0 GPA, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 94%, 4.0 GPA at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (32)
kitti10
points9
scrape8
simultaneous8
listings8
filter7
scraper7
object-detection7
computer-vision6
csv6
facebook6
facebook-messenger6
nodejs5
chat5
converting5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
EstherJin/WaterlooWorks-Desirability-Predictor
Jan 2019 - Jan 2021
Series of scripts to scrape job listings from waterlooworks into a CSV then filter based on comapnies
Contributions:4 commits in 2 years
job-listingscsvpythonscrapejob
charlesyz/charlesyz.github.io-ARCHIVE
Oct 2017 - Jan 2021
Contributions:5 PRs, 71 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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