Summary
Jianxiong Cai is a software engineer with nine years of experience and dual Master’s training in Robotics and Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Pennsylvania. He combines academic research at the GRASP lab with practical robotics and vision work, including a GSoC project on 3D reconstruction from SLAM point clouds that produced a working prototype and public code. Comfortable across software engineering and autonomous ground vehicle systems, he has hands-on experience teaching and mentoring students in computer architecture and robotics labs. Based in Shanghai, he brings a blend of research rigor and applied engineering, focused on perception, visual odometry, and system integration for robotic platforms. Notably, his background spans both open-source collaboration and graduate research, positioning him to bridge prototype development and production-ready systems.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, 3.71, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, 3.71 at ShanghaiTech University
Master of Science in Engineering, Computer and Information Sciences, Master of Science in Engineering, Computer and Information Sciences at University of Pennsylvania