James Yang
Founding Engineer at Cosmic Robotics
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Yang is a robotics-focused founding engineer with 13 years of experience building perception, sensor calibration, and autonomy systems for real-world robots. He has led autonomy teams at Pickle Robot Company and shipped large-scale sensor calibration and state estimation solutions across thousands of Amazon Scout units, and worked on Everyday Robots at X. Comfortable spanning research and production, he combines Kalman filtering, visual-inertial optimization, and multi-sensor extrinsics work into reliable fielded systems. Based in Tucson, he favors automation that reduces manual work—his GitHub ethos is to "automate myself out of work"—and consistently designs algorithms intended to scale and self-calibrate. His background includes MSE Robotics from UPenn and early NASA and academic robotics experience, giving him both theoretical depth and practical systems chops. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who makes complex sensor stacks quietly robust so teams can move faster.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSE, Robotics, MSE, Robotics at University of Pennsylvania
English
Github Skills (10)
debugging9
simulation6
ros6
gazebosim6
rendering6
physics5
robotics5
cpp4
robotics-simulation4
robot-simulator4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
yangjames/ESE650
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:78 commits, 60 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
yangjames/emacs_settings
Feb 2019 - Oct 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 9 months
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