Philip Huang
Graduate Research Assistant
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Huang is a robotics-focused researcher and engineer with nine years of experience building perception, planning, and learning systems across academic and industry settings. Currently a PhD student and Graduate Research Assistant at Carnegie Mellon, he brings a strong track record from the University of Toronto where he led work on task and path planning, continual model-based reinforcement learning, and coordinated multi-robot flight. His background spans hands-on field robotics (Crazyflie teams, sunflower pollination), leading an object detection and tracking team, and practical ML systems work at Qualcomm accelerating neural networks for Snapdragon SoCs. Philip combines rigorous research with production-minded engineering, often bridging simulation and real-world deployment of robot systems. Based in Pittsburgh, he blends academic depth in robotics and ML with proven leadership on multidisciplinary teams.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of TorontoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
mandarian, English
Github Skills (27)
roadrunner10
bolt10
nano10
open-hardware10
crazyflie10
intel9
hardware9
firmware9
sdk9
computer-vision9
in-app-purchase8
payment-methods8
camera-api7
realsense6
deep-reinforcement-learning4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rvl-lab-utoronto/HyperCRL
Dec 2020 - May 2021
Code for the paper "Continual Model-Based Reinforcement Learning with Hypernetworks"
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
hypernetworksmodel-basedmodel-based-reinforcement-learningreinforcement-learningdeep-reinforcement-learning
philip-huang/philip-huang.github.io
Apr 2021 - Mar 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:45 pushes in 3 years 11 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesgitbook
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