Mingxiang Fan is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building motion planning and computational geometry systems for robotics and autonomous vehicles, currently driving engineering at Waymo in Mountain View. He previously contributed to GSuite and Gmail infrastructure at Google and has hands-on experience in robot algorithms from an internship at Mech-Mind Robotics. Trained at Tsinghua and with a 3.9/4.0 MS from the University of Michigan, he blends rigorous academic grounding in electrical and computer engineering with production-grade software delivery. Known for treating advanced tech like “magic,” he focuses on bringing mathematically grounded solutions into scalable, real-world autonomous systems. He is reachable on WeChat as darkthecross, hinting at an engaged, developer-first presence beyond formal profiles.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Electronic and Computer Engineering, 3.9/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Electronic and Computer Engineering, 3.9/4.0 at University of Michigan
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Tsinghua University
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