Fan Jiang is a robotics-focused software engineer with a PhD from Georgia Tech and 12 years of engineering experience spanning embedded firmware to large-scale perception systems. Now building mapping and 3D processing infrastructure at Zoox, he combines deep expertise in visual-inertial SLAM, factor-graph optimization (maintainer of GTSAM), and production-grade C++ with practical Rust experience in robotics. He has a strong track record of debugging complex systems—finding and fixing real bugs in Boost and ROS/FastRTPS at Meta—and has built a differentiable optimization framework (SwiftFusion) with Google’s S4TF team. Comfortable from silicon to sensor fusion and large-data tooling like Apache Arrow and DuckDB, he’s equally at home bootstrapping new research directions or hardening fielded robot stacks.
12 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics at Georgia Institute of Technology
Undergraduate, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, 2013, Undergraduate, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, 2013 at Southern University of Science and Technology
Contributions:22 commits, 10 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Fan primarily focused on modifying and updating the `ddnspod.sh` script, which is a dynamic DNS client. Their contributions involved improvements to IP address retrieval, DNS record updates using the DNSPod API, and fixes for compatibility issues across different operating systems (Mac and Linux). The user also made changes related to Ubuntu compatibility and a minor typo fix.
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 22 days
Contributions summary:Fan primarily focused on improving the nalgebra library, which involved addressing warnings related to the latest Rust compiler and enhancing code efficiency. They made multiple updates that refined memory management, as seen by changes that use `MaybeUninit`. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the overall quality of the library. The user also added a TODO notice, pointing toward future optimizations.
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Fan Jiang - Software Engineer (Perception) at Zoox