Joseph Zhu
Founding Researcher at Stealth AI Startup
San Ramon, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Zhu is a hands-on founding researcher and roboticist with seven years of experience building full-stack robotics systems—from embedded control and kinematics to 3D perception, manipulation, and foundation-model-driven perception. As co-founder and CTO of Tepan, he architected the end-to-end software for a consumer robot chef that autonomously cooks and self-cleans, and he continues to push applied research in a stealth AI startup based in the Bay Area. His background spans industry-leading teams (Tesla Autopilot, Meta AR) and top research labs (Stanford V&L), with first-author papers including an ICLR spotlight and high HuggingFace recognition. He combines signal-processing chops (differentiable LPC and neural speech codecs) with practical productization of robotics and vision systems, frequently shipping prototypes and demos himself. Equally comfortable writing low-level firmware or training multi-scale GANs, he blends academic rigor with startup execution. Based in San Ramon, CA, he brings a rare mix of entrepreneurial grit, multidisciplinary technical depth, and a track record of turning novel research into working hardware.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (190)
speech-enhancement10
steamvr10
imu10
audio10
flux10
pytorch10
source-separation10
rendering9
robotics9
openxr9
platform-independent9
stream9
pybullet9
camera9
bullet9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JunzheJosephZhu/Multi-Decoder-DPRNN
Oct 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:39 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
JunzheJosephZhu/Child_Speech_Diarization
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:15 commits, 2 pushes in 1 month
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