Chien-ying Chen
Senior Software Engineer - Robotics at NVIDIA
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChien-ying Chen is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in robotics software at NVIDIA with 11 years of experience building real-time, embedded, and security-conscious systems. She brings a strong research background—holding a PhD from UIUC—where she led NSF-funded projects on time-critical system security and developed a widely used RTOS schedule simulator. At NVIDIA she contributes to Isaac ROS and Isaac SDK, blending low-level performance optimization with AI-enabled perception and navigation stacks. Her prior work spans embedded smartphone bring-up at HTC and hands-on IoT security research at SRI, including practical hardware exploits and threat modeling. Based in California, she combines academic rigor with production-grade engineering to harden and accelerate robotic platforms.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at National Tsing Hua UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electronic Engineering at National Yunlin University of Science and Technology
Chinese, English
Github Skills (15)
simulator6
bluetooth5
live-video4
hardware4
hardware-designs3
stream3
streaming2
kernel2
video-streaming2
firmware2
raspberry2
webrtc2
iot2
raspberry-pi1
realtime1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cchen140/RtsHackerVisualizer
Feb 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 122 pushes, 23 branches in 1 year 11 months
real-timevisualizervisualization
synercys/RTS-Schedule-Simulator
Jan 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:239 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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