Hannah He
Robotics Software Engineer at Waymo
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolHannah He is a robotics software engineer with 10 years of experience building motion planning and autonomy systems for real-world robots, currently working on onboard motion planning at Waymo in San Francisco. Her background spans research and production roles at Aurora, Amazon Robotics, and Carnegie Mellon, where she focused on obstacle avoidance, constrained trajectory generation, and adaptive sampling for multi-robot systems. She combines strong academic training in computer science and robotics with hands-on experience in dynamics-aware planning, force-constrained manipulation, and perception-driven path correction. Known for the concise mission “I help robots not run into things,” she bridges simulation and physical deployment, teaching students to debug across hardware and software. An organizer for inclusion initiatives at CMU, she also brings proven mentorship and community-building skills to technical teams.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Olentangy High SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science and Robotics, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (4)
ozone8
robot7
robotics6
ros6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
olentangyfrc/Steamworks2017
Jan 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:152 commits, 131 pushes, 19 branches in 9 months
roboticsfirst-robotics-competitionfirst-roboticsrobotrobotics-competition
robomechanics/ExplorationAlgorithms
Oct 2019 - Mar 2024
Contributions:6 pushes in 4 years 5 months
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