Qingkai Lu
Staff Robotics Engineer, AI Manipulation (Tech Lead Manager)
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolQingkai Lu is a Staff Robotics Engineer and Tech Lead Manager in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building robot perception, manipulation, and learning systems across industry and academia. He holds a PhD in Computing and Robotics and has applied deep learning and reinforcement learning to real-world humanoid and mobile manipulation problems at companies including Agility Robotics, Xpeng Robotics, Amazon, and Baidu USA. Qingkai blends research rigor with production focus—shipping perception and control pipelines for complex robotic hands and whole-body manipulation while leading small cross-functional teams. His background spans from core research during his PhD to applied roles deploying models in perception and control at scale, and he has a history of internships that shaped early expertise in large-scale systems and vision for robotics. Notably, he moved rapidly between cutting-edge startups and large tech labs, demonstrating an ability to translate novel algorithms into robust, fielded robotic capabilities.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahMaster of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at Oregon State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Hefei University of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (59)
hardware9
sdk9
computer-vision8
in-app-purchase8
machine-learning8
payment-methods8
dynamics8
caffe8
robotics8
simulation8
simulator8
intel8
kinematics7
pytorch7
mesh7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
QingkaiLu/multi-fingered_grasp_planners
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:10 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
QingkaiLu/footballForm
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 months
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