Clark Zhang
Cofounder & Chief Technology Officer at Graphon AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolClark Zhang is a robotics- and systems-focused technology leader with 12 years of experience building ML-driven autonomy and production-ready robotics systems, now cofounder and CTO of Graphon AI in San Francisco. He previously led machine learning efforts at Meta to combat fraud and spent several years at Nuro designing hybrid ML/traditional robotic behaviors for challenging driving scenarios like unprotected turns and narrow roads. Clark’s academic work at UPenn translated reinforcement learning and dynamics model learning into large practical gains (5x fewer samples, failure rates cut from 20% to <1%), reflecting his ability to move research into robust fielded systems. He brings end-to-end expertise from embedded control and onboard vision on VTOLs to large-scale ML at hyperscalers, and he’s actively hiring ML and research engineers to scale Graphon’s mission. An avid maker and computer enthusiast, he maintains a personal projects site showcasing hands-on robotics and software work.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at University of MichiganPh.D. Electrical And Systems Engineering Robotics, Ph.D. Electrical And Systems Engineering Robotics at University of Pennsylvania
Chinese
Github Skills (26)
gazebosim9
simulator9
ignition9
unreal9
platform-independent9
urdf9
moveit9
computer-vision8
deep-reinforcement-learning8
webots8
control-systems8
robot8
robotics8
simulation8
airsim8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
chickensouple/chickensouple.github.io
Feb 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:56 commits, 22 pushes in 1 year 10 months
chickensouple/learning_implicit_distributions
Nov 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:41 commits, 25 pushes in 6 months
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