Junhong Xu
Software Engineer at Nuro
Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJunhong Xu is a software engineer and robotics researcher with a decade of experience focused on decision-making under uncertainty for autonomous systems. He completed a PhD in Robotics at Indiana University Bloomington and now applies safe reinforcement learning and simulation expertise to self-driving projects at Nuro. Previously he built GPU-accelerated simulators and RL-driven interactive agent behaviors at DiDi, and during a research internship developed deep inverse reinforcement learning models to infer spatial cost maps from human driving data. Junhong combines rigorous academic training with production-oriented engineering, bridging probabilistic planning, RL safety, and high-performance simulation. Based in Bloomington, Indiana, he brings both theoretical depth and practical tooling experience to advance robust autonomy.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Fifth year PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Fifth year PhD at Indiana University Bloomington
Github Skills (64)
deterministic10
robotics10
python10
machine-learning10
numpy10
dynamics10
mechanics10
deep-learning10
gpu10
mujoco10
bullet-physics9
simulator9
simulation9
physics-engine9
autograd9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
JunhongXu/planet-kaggle-pytorch
May 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:200 commits, 180 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
JunhongXu/DCGAN-TensorFlow
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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