Longfei Zhao
Senior Researcher at Tencent
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolLongfei Zhao is a senior researcher and roboticist with 11 years of experience building control systems for assistive, medical, service and humanoid robots across industry and academia. He holds advanced robotics training from institutions in China, Italy, France and Canada and a PhD focused on parallel robotics, controller design and optimization. At Kinova he led ROS and core control development for humanoid and arm products, implementing real-time C++ algorithms for kinematics, singularity handling and admittance control, and now applies that expertise at Tencent. He combines hands-on low-level control and system architecture design with practical deployment skills—SLAM, vision, sensor fusion and human-robot interaction—bridging research and product teams. A multilingual, multinational collaborator, he frequently coordinates global partners and beta users to de-risk projects and accelerate feature adoption. Outside engineering he pursues photography and video, which informs his attention to perceptual detail in robot vision and HRI design.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Human computer interaction, Real-time systems, Computer vision, Master's degree, Human computer interaction, Real-time systems, Computer vision at Università degli Studi di Genova / University of GenoaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Parallel Robotics, Controller Design, Optimization, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Parallel Robotics, Controller Design, Optimization at Université du Québec - Ecole de Technologie supérieureBachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Control theory and automation, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Control theory and automation at Central South UniversityMaster's degree, Robotics, Modelling and control of manipulators, Embedded system, Master's degree, Robotics, Modelling and control of manipulators, Embedded system at Ecole centrale de Nantes
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Github Skills (21)
gazebosim10
occupancy-grid-map10
slam-algorithms10
robotics9
ros9
planning6
deploying6
robot5
virtual-environment5
rep4
testing4
motion-planning4
api3
matlab3
moveit3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
LongfeiProjects/kinova-movo
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
Source code of the Kinova MOVO platform
Contributions:45 pushes, 15 branches in 2 months
Workstation-Setup/git_setup
Jan 2019 - May 2022
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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