Rachel Lu
Software Engineer at Microsoft
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRachel Lu is a software engineer and MIT undergrad specializing in computer science and artificial intelligence, currently on the engineering team at Microsoft. She brings eight years of hands-on experience spanning robotics research at CSAIL—where she programmed a Franka Emika arm, implemented RRT-based motion planners, and applied impedance control and TAMP—to applied ML and tooling at NASA Ames for scene text recognition across large panoramic datasets. Comfortable in Python, Git, and foundational C/Java, Rachel has also taught and mentored young programmers and supported MIT’s 6.102 course as a LA and TA, blending pedagogy with production coding. Her work sits at the intersection of perception, planning, and software construction, with a knack for turning research prototypes into usable interfaces like interactive Jupyter search tools. Based in New York, she combines academic rigor with industry impact and a demonstrated ability to navigate both low-level robotics control and higher-level AI systems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAdvanced Regents Diploma, Advanced Regents Diploma at The Bronx High School of Science
English, Chinese
Github Skills (5)
git8
iron8
github8
patch6
subversion4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rachlu/articulated_panda
Jul 2022 - Feb 2024
Contributions:8 PRs, 120 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 6 months
rachlu/isaac
Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
Integrated System for Autonomous and Adaptive Caretaking
Contributions:66 pushes, 5 branches in 2 months
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