Summary
Hiu Yu is a perceptive software engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in sensing, stereo vision, LiDAR, point cloud processing, and low-level perception for robotics and autonomous systems. Currently at Google DeepMind working on robotics sensing infrastructure, he previously contributed to Google Brain, X/The Moonshot Factory, Everyday Robots, and NIO, bringing production-grade sensor fusion and calibration expertise. He has a strong academic foundation with an MS in Computer Science from UC Davis and a track record of practical research—developing multi-camera point cloud generation and depth camera evaluation tools. Known for tackling thorny calibration and registration problems early in projects, Hiu blends hands-on C++/C#/systems work with algorithmic depth in perception pipelines. Based in California, he pairs research instincts with industry-scale deployments, making him especially effective at turning sensor data into reliable robotic behavior.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at University of California, Davis
English, Chinese