Summary
Chizhao Yang is a data scientist and application developer with 10 years of experience building lidar, vision, and sensor-fusion systems for robotics and industrial applications. He has led lidar R&D and SDK development, designed filter-based multi-agent navigation and collision-avoidance systems, and delivered 3D LiDAR-inertial SLAM that won top honors in a NASA robotics challenge. Comfortable bridging research and product, he has taken algorithms from EKF/particle-filter prototypes to field-deployed firmware, drivers, GUIs, and CI/CD pipelines. Currently at AeroDefense in Framingham, he focuses on lidar-based motion estimation in dynamic environments and human-robot collaboration for smart warehouses. His background—PhD-level aerospace engineering mixed with hands-on MCU firmware and field applications engineering—gives him a rare combination of theoretical depth and practical system integration.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Aerospace Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Aerospace Engineering at West Virginia University
Master’s Degree Electrical Engineering, Master’s Degree Electrical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology
Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering at Sichuan Normal University
Chinese, English