Summary
Sheng Yang is a senior software engineer and technical lead with over 15 years bridging academia and industry to architect and ship production-grade systems that combine control theory, mathematical modeling, optimization, and machine learning. Based in Ann Arbor, he currently leads tool development for GM’s electrification and controls programs, having designed GMSIMTools to accelerate virtual system integration and AutoVal to automate EMC data collection and controller validation with CNN/RNN/MLP techniques. He has a strong systems and algorithms foundation (C/C++, C#, Java, Python, embedded design, MATLAB/Simulink) and a track record of improving performance, scalability and test automation across large, cross-functional programs. Prior roles include leading simulation product development at LLamasoft and pioneering manufacturing simulation and verification tools at the University of Michigan, reflecting deep domain expertise in SCM, SIL/HIL workflows and manufacturing systems. Notably, his tools have delivered substantial cost and time savings (e.g., cutting evaluation time by ~80% and prototype testing cost by ~60%) while enabling automated Road-to-Lab-to-Math powertrain workflows.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Automatic Control, Bachelor's Degree, Automatic Control at Tsinghua University
English, Chinese, Japanese