Kai-chieh Ma
Senior Autonomy Engineer at Brain Corp
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKai-chieh Ma is a Senior Autonomy Engineer in San Diego with 11 years of experience building motion planning and SLAM systems for robotic platforms, from autonomous trucks to commercial floor robots. He has shipped production autonomy software at Brain Corp and TuSimple and brings hands-on road-test experience with level-4 vehicle systems as well as research-grade implementations for marine robots. His work bridges academic rigor—MS in Computer Science from USC with multiple ICRA/IROS publications—and pragmatic product engineering, having contributed to consumer software earlier in his career. Known for turning optimization-based planners and state-machine decision systems into reliable fielded behavior, he pairs strong algorithmic foundations with practical ROS and systems integration skills. An under-the-radar strength is his consistent movement between research and production, enabling rapid translation of novel planning ideas into testable deployments.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Rank: 39/105, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Rank: 39/105 at National Taiwan University (NTU)Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.8/4.0, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.8/4.0 at University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering
chinese (mandarin, taiwanese), English
Github Skills (44)
octave9
solver9
nonlinear9
matlab9
sparse8
optimization8
ipopt8
parameter-estimation8
svm8
model-predictive-control8
building-blocks8
symbolic-manipulation8
modular7
optimization-methods7
constrained-optimization7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
markcsie/slam_project
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:54 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
markcsie/markcsie.github.io
Dec 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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