Laura Zheng
Machine Learning Engineer at Waymo
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolLaura Zheng is a Machine Learning Engineer with eight years of experience applying deep learning and simulation to autonomous driving and traffic behavior modeling, currently working on behavior modeling at Waymo in Mountain View. She holds a CS PhD from University of Maryland, where her research combined microscopic traffic simulation with robustness studies of real-time perception under adverse conditions. Her background spans industry internships at Waymo, Kitware, NASA Goddard, and ADNET, giving her practical exposure to perception, data augmentation via simulation, and short-document classification methods. Known for bridging rigorous research and production engineering, she focuses on interpretable behavior models that improve safety and robustness in deployed autonomous systems. Unexpectedly, she also brings hands-on leadership from earlier roles organizing international student programs and leading a city-contracted mobile app team, skills she leverages when coordinating cross-functional research-to-production efforts.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College ParkPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of Maryland
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (34)
transport9
simulation9
traffic9
sumo8
medical-image-segmentation8
image-segmentation8
semantic-segmentation8
toolbox8
traffic-simulation7
pytorch7
benchmark7
eye-tracking7
segmentation7
eclipse7
transformer6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
laurayuzheng/laurayuzheng.github.io
Jul 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:75 pushes in 4 years 6 months
laurayuzheng/TrAAD
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
Contributions:6 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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