Liangjun Zhang
Distinguished Engineer, Autonomous Driving at General Motors, Mountain View Tech Center
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolLiangjun Zhang is a Distinguished Engineer in autonomous driving with 12 years of deep technical and leadership experience across industry and academia. He has led core motion planning, control, decision, prediction and simulation efforts at AutoX and Baidu USA and now drives autonomous systems work at General Motors’ Mountain View Tech Center. His background blends robotics research—PhD work in motion planning and award-winning dissertation research—with practical system delivery for vehicle prototypes and production-grade autonomy stacks. Earlier roles at Samsung Research and S3 Graphics give him uncommon cross-domain expertise in GPU performance and graphics software, which he leverages for high-performance perception and simulation pipelines. Known for translating advanced algorithms into robust vehicle behavior, he pairs rigorous research instincts with hands-on engineering leadership. Based in the Bay Area, Liangjun combines academic credibility with a track record of shipping complex autonomy systems at scale.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Zhejiang UniversityPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (2)
service-virtualization8
virtualization4
Github contributions (1)
baidu/terminator
Nov 2013 - Nov 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years
virtualizationservice-virtualization
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