Javier Yu
Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJavier Yu is a research scientist and roboticist with a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford and a decade of hands-on experience building perception and learning systems for robots and vehicles. His work spans learned scene reconstruction, distributed multi-robot learning, and end-to-end autonomous driving research, with practical experience deploying models for on-vehicle inference and prototyping safety-aware perception pipelines. At Skydio he developed zero-/few-shot multi-modal systems to detect hazardous flight conditions and built large-scale curation and TensorRT deployment workflows, reflecting a strong focus on moving research into real-time embedded settings. He also led curriculum and hardware modernization for a large robotics course, demonstrating an ability to teach and scale complex systems to hundreds of students. Based in Palo Alto, Javier blends rigorous academic foundations with production-minded engineering, often favoring solutions that bridge learned representations and robust, safety-critical control.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Plattsburgh High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering at University at BuffaloDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Stanford University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (69)
visual-odometry10
3d-reconstruction10
ros-driver10
computer-vision9
3d9
pytorch9
photogrammetry9
3d-graphics9
localization8
robotics8
occupancy-grid-map8
collaboration8
ros8
deep-learning8
jetson8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
javieryu/nn_distributed_training
Apr 2021 - Feb 2023
Collective training of neural networks on distributed datasets.
Contributions:185 commits, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 1 year 10 months
javieryu/nerf_bridge
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
ROS streaming of images and poses to nerfstudio.
Contributions:19 commits, 15 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 month
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