Haowen Lai
Research Assistant at University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHaowen Lai is a PhD researcher in Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania specializing in wireless sensing, high-resolution radar imaging, multi-modal sensor fusion, and SLAM for autonomous systems. With eight years of research experience and prior degrees from Tsinghua and Tongji, he has authored multiple conference papers, journals, and patents bridging radar-based perception and robotic mapping. His work includes award-winning demonstrations that enable visual-style recognition from radio frequencies and RF-based 3D SLAM that rivals vision approaches. Haowen’s background spans real-world deployments—from LiDAR-inertial SLAM on autonomous vehicles to multi-agent map assembly—highlighting a rare combination of theoretical depth and systems-level implementation. He maintains an active research portfolio and personal site that showcases reproducible code and demos linking wireless imaging to practical robot navigation.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, top 1/79, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, top 1/79 at Tongji UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Tsinghua UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (15)
rviz9
occupancy-grid-map9
scanning9
slam9
localization9
lidar8
robotics8
ros8
3d-mapping8
android7
smoothing7
java6
ios6
odometry5
sam4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
HaowenLai/haowenlai.github.io
May 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:26 commits, 30 pushes in 2 years 6 months
HaowenLai/RobotArm1
May 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 24 commits, 31 pushes in 2 months
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