Long Chen
Senior Research Director at Xiaomi Technology
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLong Chen is a Senior Research Director and embodied AI specialist with 10+ years building end-to-end learning systems for autonomous vehicles, robotics, and medical imaging. He has led vision-language-action and data-driven planning efforts at Wayve and Lyft Level 5 and now heads research at Xiaomi to bring AI into physical products. Trained with a PhD from Bournemouth and a master’s from UCL, his work spans surgical robotics, mixed reality, and fleet-scale AV data, blending rigorous academic methods with production-focused engineering. Known for pioneering VLAMs and experiments like Driving with LLMs and LINGO, he combines deep perception, language grounding, and control into cohesive embodied solutions. Based in London, he maintains an active scholarly presence and a concise GitHub focus on embodied AI research.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Biomedical Engineering at Dalian University of TechnologyResearch Visit, Research Visit at Imperial College LondonDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Vision Machine Learning Augmented Reality, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Vision Machine Learning Augmented Reality at Bournemouth UniversityUniversity College London
Github Skills (9)
planning10
depth10
depth-estimation9
prediction9
machine-learning8
autonomous-vehicles8
deep-learning5
pytorch5
transformer2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
melights/melights.github.io
Jun 2017 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 70 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 4 months
wayveai/Driving-with-LLMs
May 2023 - Feb 2025
PyTorch implementation for the paper "Driving with LLMs: Fusing Object-Level Vector Modality for Explainable Autonomous Driving"
Contributions:1 review, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
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