Haidong Zhu
Research Scientist at Waymo
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolHaidong Zhu is a research scientist at Waymo Research with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from USC (2024) and nine years of experience across academia and industry. His work focuses on computer vision and deep learning, with particular emphasis on multimodal 3D perception and biometric understanding developed during his time in the USC IRIS Computer Vision Lab under Prof. Ram Nevatia. Haidong has blended rigorous academic research with production-oriented internships at Microsoft, Amazon, and ByteDance, giving him a practical edge in transferring models from lab to large-scale systems. He began his technical training at Tsinghua University in electronic engineering and gained diverse research exposure via positions at Harvard and multiple Tsinghua labs. Based in New York, he brings a rare combination of foundational signal-processing background and contemporary deep-learning expertise applied to autonomous vehicle perception.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Tsinghua University
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Github Skills (12)
neural-rendering4
java3
pytorch2
imaging2
microscopy2
affinity2
deep-learning2
computer-vision2
transformer2
graph1
watershed1
electron1
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Github contributions (5)
PersuesJohnson/Training
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:8 pushes in 1 day
zhuhd15/Quality-Awareness-Module
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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