Lingjian Kong
Head Of AI Platform
California, United States
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Top SchoolLingjian Kong is a Head of AI Platform and engineering leader with 8 years of hands-on experience building autonomous systems, robotics software, and video computer vision at companies including Apple, Blue River Technology, and Bonsai Robotics. He blends mechanical engineering foundations (UIUC, Columbia) with an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech to bridge hardware-aware systems engineering and modern ML-driven perception stacks. At Apple he drove video computer vision and special projects, and at Blue River and bObsweep he shipped production robotics software across perception, control, and systems integration. Now leading AI platform efforts in California, he focuses on moving perception and autonomy research into reliable, scalable production pipelines. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who pairs deep technical breadth with operational rigor—comfortable from low-level robotics stacks up to large-scale ML deployments. An unusual strength is his cross-domain fluency between mechanical design intuition and software-first ML engineering, enabling faster iteration on real-world robotic products.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science - MS Mechanical Engineering at Columbia UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Mechanical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHigh School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Maumee Valley Country Day School
English, Chinese, Japanese
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Github Skills (26)
matching8
cuda6
vi6
vim6
eigen6
stereo6
cmake6
python6
code-behind6
php3
tabnine3
autocomplete3
java3
ruby2
vim-plugin2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lingjiankong/leetcode
Jul 2018 - Jan 2022
Coding challenges from www.leetcode.com
Contributions:225 commits, 6 PRs, 272 pushes in 3 years 6 months
pythonleetcode-solutionsleetcode
lingjiankong/vimmy
Sep 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 46 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 3 months
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