Fan Yang
Graduate Research Assistant
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolFan Yang is a robotics researcher and engineer with seven years of experience building perception, planning, and autonomy systems across academia and industry, currently pursuing a PhD at ETH Zurich's Robotic Systems Lab. He has blended hands-on field engineering (Yamaha ATV autonomous driving, DARPA SubT) with product-focused robotics roles at Amazon Lab126 and Near Earth Autonomy, and co-founded a panoramic camera startup early in his career. His contributions span motion planning, Vision-LiDAR SLAM, and navigation graph tooling—evidenced by his far_planner work improving route decoding, multi-layer planning, and dynamic obstacle handling. Comfortable shipping both research and production code, he moves fluidly between system-level electromechanical integration and back-end navigation software. Notably, he pairs deep academic training from Carnegie Mellon and ETH with practical autonomy deployments, bringing a pattern of turning research prototypes into robust field-capable systems.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Automation, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Automation at Beihang UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics at ETH ZürichMaster's degree, Robotics, Master's degree, Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
Github Skills (8)
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c-language10
cprogramming-language10
navigation-drawer10
navigationview10
graph-theory10
ros9
algorithms9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MichaelFYang/far_planner
Oct 2021 - Mar 2022
Fast, Attemptable Route Planner for Navigation in Known and Unknown Environments
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 16 commits, 1 PR in 5 months
Contributions summary:Fan focused on enhancing the functionality of the navigation graph decoder. Their contributions include implementing features to read and save VGraph data, handling boundary graph information, and fixing reload issues. They also addressed code related to multi-layer planning and terrain connections, along with dynamic obstacle handling. Furthermore, the user worked on adjusting nodes' height and goal waypoint projection.
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MichaelFYang/greedy_exploration_planner
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:45 commits in 2 months
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