Christina Liao
Systems Test Engineer, Sensing at Waymo
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolChristina Liao is a systems test engineer with nine years of experience specializing in camera and LiDAR performance for safety-critical autonomous vehicle sensors. She has led cross-functional scrum teams and end-to-end camera validation programs, developing custom metrics, test benches, and automated analysis pipelines to quantify and improve visible camera performance. Her background in optics and photonics (MS, University of Michigan) and early research in plasmonics and high-contrast grating resonators gives her a rare blend of hands-on optics expertise and production-focused test engineering. Certified as a Scrum Master, she excels at coordinating multi-discipline campaigns to deliver measurable sensor improvements under tight safety requirements. Now at Waymo after multiple roles at Cruise, she brings both academic rigor and practical lab-to-fleet experience to sensor verification and validation.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Optics and Photonics, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Optics and Photonics at University of Michigan - Rackham Graduate SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Engineering Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Engineering Physics at University of California, Berkeley
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Github contributions (5)
Azuretide/codeu_project_2017
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:9 pushes in 2 months
Azuretide/NewsPix-Mobile
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches, 1 issue in 22 days
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