Chris Song
Staff Applied Scientist - AI & Robotics at General Motors
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Song is a Staff Applied Scientist specializing in perception and machine learning with eight years of experience building autonomous perception stacks for leading automotive and robotics firms. He has advanced expertise in tracking, sensor fusion, semantics, and scene understanding from senior roles at Zoox and Rivian and now leads AI & robotics efforts at General Motors. His background blends hands-on robotics, embedded and hardware design (NVIDIA) with production perception engineering, enabling pragmatic solutions that move from research prototypes to vehicle-scale deployment. Chris also contributes full‑stack open-source work—adding radio and podcast integrations to Volumio plugins—illustrating a broad interest that ranges from audio/web UI to drone and ML projects. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon and the University of Waterloo in mechatronics and robotic systems, and is actively seeking full‑time roles focused on perception and machine learning. Notably, his career combines low-level hardware insight with high-level scene understanding, a rare mix that accelerates cross-domain integration.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at York Mills Collegiate InstituteMaster's degree, Robotic Systems Developement, Master's degree, Robotic Systems Developement at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Honours Mechatronics Engineering (with Distinction), Bachelor’s Degree, Honours Mechatronics Engineering (with Distinction) at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (11)
rss10
nodejs10
javascript10
parsing10
parse10
plugin10
apim7
api7
html6
css6
xhtml6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
volumio/volumio-plugins
Jan 2018 - Sep 2020
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 16 PRs, 13 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Chris implemented and maintained features for the Volumio plugin, focusing on Korean and Linn radio integrations. They added and modified code for handling browse URIs, content retrieval, playback controls, and UI configuration. Key contributions include the addition of radio stations and bug fixes related to parsing and displaying content. They also introduced BBC radio podcast integration.
ChrisPanda/volumio-personal-radio-plugin
Jan 2018 - Apr 2022
Volumio Korean(KBS, MBC, SBS) and Linn Radio plugin
Contributions:5 releases, 177 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 3 months
volumiopluginkoreanradiosbs
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