Gavin Gao is an Algorithm Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building CV and SLAM systems for XR and robotics applications, from mobile robots and drones to AR/VR platforms. He has shipped VIO/vSLAM, obstacle avoidance, semantic perception and visual object localization features in commercial products, and has deep experience porting and optimizing SLAM for ARM/Android and wide-angle camera models. Gavin's open-source work on IMU + sensor fusion (ESKF/IEKF/UKF variants) shows practical expertise in Kalman-filter state design and measurement updates, and he often bridges research-level algorithms with production constraints. Based in Chaoyang, Beijing, he pairs strong C++ and embedded-software skills with system-level insight into sensor calibration and SDK integration (ARCore/ARKit/HoloLens2). Notably, he has a track record of diagnosing and fixing long-standing build/runtime issues in legacy SLAM codebases, accelerating project delivery beyond initial expectations.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Automation, Bachelor's degree, Automation at Yanshan University
IMU + X(GNSS, 6DoF Odom) Loosely-Coupled Fusion Localization based on ESKF, IEKF, UKF(UKF/SPKF, JUKF, SVD-UKF) and MAP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:6 reviews, 141 commits, 62 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Gavin primarily worked on implementing and modifying a Kalman filter (KF) for sensor fusion, specifically focusing on IMU and visual-inertial odometry (VIO). They updated and refined the KF implementation within the `imu_gnss_fusion` and `imu_vo_fusion_node` source files. This involved changes to the state representation, prediction steps, and measurement update procedures within the KF framework. Furthermore, they introduced a new node for fusing IMU and VO data.
Third-party Plug-ins and Tools for Development with Java.
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 10 months
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