Chris Ying
Staff Software Engineer at Waymo
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Ying is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building production-grade perception and ML systems for autonomous vehicles, most recently at Waymo after leadership roles at Cruise. He combines deep learning research foundations from Google Brain and CMU with hands-on product delivery—leading machine perception teams at Ambient.ai and shipping LiDAR and semantic understanding pipelines in AV stacks. Chris has contributed to influential open research tooling such as the NASBench API, improving dataset querying and usability for model evaluation, reflecting a mix of research rigor and pragmatic engineering. Known for moving algorithms into scalable data pipelines and training workflows, he thrives at the intersection of research, systems, and applied safety-critical deployment.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Machine Learning, Master of Science (MS) Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (10)
tensorflow10
python10
neural-architecture-search10
apidoc9
datasets9
data-set9
data-management9
machine-learning9
api9
jupyter-notebook8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
google-research/nasbench
Dec 2018 - Nov 2019
NASBench: A Neural Architecture Search Dataset and Benchmark
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the NASBench API, focusing on querying the dataset for model evaluations and incorporating features like "stop_halfway" for partial training results. They modified the API to improve metrics retrieval, adding functionality to access fixed and computed statistics. Furthermore, the user added a Colab notebook demonstrating usage of the NASBench dataset.
pytorchdeep-learningneural-architecture-searchdatasetmachine-learning
chrisying/vgg-tracker
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:414 commits, 410 pushes in 3 months
vgg19tensorflowvgg16
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