Minghua Liu
Founding Member & Senior Director at Hillbot
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMinghua Liu is a research-driven engineering leader and founding member based in Sunnyvale with a decade of experience at the intersection of robotics, AI, and applied research. After a PhD track at UC San Diego and a BE from Tsinghua, Minghua moved through research internships at Adobe, Waymo, Qualcomm, and NVIDIA before helping scale Hillbot from researcher to Senior Director and co-founder. He blends deep academic training with hands-on prototyping and productization, often translating lab ideas into real-world robotic systems. Known for thriving in high-velocity, multidisciplinary teams, he brings both strategic vision and a habit of shipping iterative research-driven features. Notably, his career path shows a pattern of short, impactful research engagements feeding into sustained startup leadership.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor of Engineering - BE, Bachelor of Engineering - BE at Tsinghua University
Github Skills (64)
inverse-kinematics10
decomposition9
robotics9
tree-search9
computer-graphics9
convex9
motion-planning9
planning9
computer-vision8
relation8
pointnet8
collision8
approximate8
pytorch7
autoencoder7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Colin97/DeepMetaHandles
Feb 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:26 commits, 15 pushes, 2 comments in 1 year 5 months
Colin97/WOW_CROW
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:87 commits, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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