Cheng Chi
Co-founder & CTO at Sunday
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCheng Chi is a co-founder and CTO based in Mountain View with eight years of experience building robotics, computer vision, and machine learning systems from research to production. He holds PhD-level training from Columbia and Stanford and has led high-impact projects at Toyota Research Institute (UMI gripper, Diffusion Policy) and autonomy work at Nuro. At Sunday he’s assembling a full-stack robotics team, applying hands-on expertise in manipulation, diffusion-based policies, and perception learned across industry internships at Apple, Uber, and GeoDigital. Notably, his work on the Universal Manipulation Interface and diffusion policies bridges cutting-edge academic research with practical robot control. He combines deep technical breadth—covering DNNs, Lie groups, SfM, and large-scale mapping—with a founder’s focus on shipping robust systems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of MichiganDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Robotics Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Robotics Computer Science at Columbia UniversityStudent of New Faculty PhD Robotics, Student of New Faculty PhD Robotics at Stanford University
Github Skills (172)
robotics10
simulations10
python9
windows9
visual-studio9
cpp9
simulation9
physics-engine9
stereo9
surface9
wsl29
robot9
mujoco9
c-library9
python-bindings9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cheng-chi/glplotlib
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:29 commits, 9 pushes, 3 comments in 7 months
cheng-chi/cheng-chi.github.io
Aug 2020 - Sep 2024
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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