Qianli Ma
Staff Motion Planning Engineer at Woven by Toyota
California, United States
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Top SchoolQianli Ma is a Staff Motion Planning Engineer with 11+ years of robotics experience, combining a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins and leadership roles at Motional and Woven by Toyota to build production-grade autonomous driving planners. His background spans calibration, control, trajectory optimization and multi-robot systems, grounded in extensive hands-on research, teaching, and a startup internship in collaborative manufacturing. He has deep domain expertise in motion planning and a track record of scaling teams and systems from research prototypes to deployed stacks. As Assistant Editor for Robotica and an active GitHub maintainer, he brings both scholarly rigor and practical open-source instincts to complex robotics problems. Notably, he started pursuing robotics as an undergraduate in 2010 and has continuously supplemented his academic training with targeted online programs (ML, AI in Robotics, self-driving nanodegree), reflecting a persistent drive to bridge theory and real-world applications.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, rank 2nd/159, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, rank 2nd/159 at Tianjin UniversityGeorgia Institute of Technology
Japanese, English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
motion-planning9
computational-geometry8
unreal3
simulation3
simulator3
vim-plugin2
neovim2
reinforcement-learning2
vim2
autonomous-vehicles1
microsoft1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
RobotMa/vimrc
Apr 2017 - Aug 2023
The ultimate Vim configuration: vimrc
Contributions:2 PRs, 103 pushes, 6 branches in 6 years 5 months
vimvim-pluginneovimvim-configurationvimrc-configuration
RobotMa/axyb_calibration
Apr 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:49 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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