Jiaheng Zhang
Software Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJiaheng Zhang is a software engineer and mechanically-minded problem solver with nine years of hands-on experience bridging robotics, autonomous driving, and thermal/mechanical design. Trained at MIT in Mechanical Engineering, he combines academic research in robotics with practical internships at NASA, Tesla, and NVIDIA, bringing laboratory rigor to real-world systems. He thrives on end-to-end product work—mechanical design, thermal engineering, and test engineering—while mentoring peers as a TA and leading student engineering teams like MIT Rocket Team. Based in Chicago, he blends software skills with deep hardware intuition, making him especially effective on cross-disciplinary autonomy projects. Notably, his profile reflects both advanced robotics research and industry-grade product experience, a mix that accelerates deployment from prototype to flight-ready systems. He’s open to conversations about robotics, autonomy, and building robust, testable hardware-software integrations.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Course 2A (Mechanical Engineering), Bachelor of Science - BS, Course 2A (Mechanical Engineering) at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Boston Latin School
Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
sensor9
simultaneous9
slam9
localization9
line-segment9
robotics8
configurations8
ros6
segment6
stereo5
kinect3
depth-camera3
kinect-v22
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
JiahengZhao/JiahengZhao.github.io
Apr 2020 - Aug 2024
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
JiahengZhao/FS-SLAM
May 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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