Lianqi Wang
Lead AO Systems Engineer at TMT International Observatory, LLC
Pasadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLianqi Wang is a Lead AO Systems Engineer with over 15 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering adaptive optics for large telescopes, currently leading AO systems work at the TMT International Observatory. He combines systems engineering, optical design, real-time control and wavefront sensing expertise with practical software development—authoring MAOS, a GPU-accelerated AO simulation tool used in modeling deformable mirrors, laser guide stars and control algorithms. His career spans technical leadership on TMT’s MCAO efforts, developing executive AO software and control architectures while coordinating international, multidisciplinary teams. Known for favoring simplicity and robustness, he translates complex scientific requirements into testable, deployable systems and thrives on solving hard problems with pragmatic solutions.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Space Physics, B.S., Space Physics at University of Science and Technology of ChinaUniversity of California, Irvine
Chinese, English
Github Skills (28)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lianqiw/files
Oct 2011 - Dec 2022
Contributions:38 commits, 38 pushes in 11 years 3 months
TMTSystemsEngineering/maos
May 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:194 pushes, 24 branches, 7 tags in 3 years 10 months
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