Max Yin is a founder and research-driven CEO who builds embodied AI systems and robotics datasets, currently leading CyberOrigin.AI to deliver 200,000+ hours of gesture capture and motion annotation used by Tesla, NVIDIA, and OpenAI. With over eight years of experience and a deep research background from Carnegie Mellon and a PhD focused on lifelong visual place recognition, he blends academic rigor with product-scale engineering. He also serves as an Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong, continuing work on SLAM, multi-agent systems, and reinforcement learning with 700+ citations. A hands-on inventor, Max created hardware and tooling such as the OpenCyberGlove (19 sensors, 200Hz) and advanced video annotation pipelines to accelerate real-world robotics deployment. His career spans DARPA- and NASA-related projects and award-winning teams, demonstrating an ability to translate complex research into industrial impact. Based in Hong Kong with ties to the Bay Area, he focuses on applying embodied AI to manufacturing, logistics, and healthcare.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Life long Visual Place Recogniation, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Life long Visual Place Recogniation at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Postgraduate Degree, Postgraduate Degree at Carnegie Mellon University
LIO-SAM: Tightly-coupled Lidar Inertial Odometry via Smoothing and Mapping
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