Summary
Shaoru Chen is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at LinkedIn with eight years of experience bridging research and production in safe, reliable AI systems. He holds a PhD in Electrical and Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and has a strong publication record across machine learning, optimization, control, and formal methods. His recent work spans generative AI, reinforcement learning, and verification-aided learning of safety certificates, building tools for scalable neural network verification and safety-aware control. Comfortable moving between theory and implementation, he has applied representation learning to vision-based motion planning and developed data-driven safety filters that translate directly to real-world systems. Based in Sunnyvale, he combines academic rigor from top institutions with hands-on experience at Microsoft and LinkedIn to make AI systems both performant and auditable.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and systems engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and systems engineering at 美国宾夕法尼亚大学
工程学士, 自动化, 工程学士, 自动化 at 浙江大学