Summary
Shengchen Liu is a Senior Research Engineer based in California with nine years of experience at the intersection of perception, vision and robotics, currently working at Samsung Research America. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, blending rigorous academic research with practical systems engineering from robot arms to consumer products. His background includes object detection, 3D reconstruction, SLAM and Kalman-filtered human tracking for platforms ranging from Amazon Astro to aerospace-grade vision systems. Shengchen has hands-on expertise across simulation (Abaqus), ROS-controlled manipulators, embedded firmware, and ML-driven perception pipelines, enabling end-to-end solutions from sensors to real-time control. Notably, he has engineered sub-millimeter robotic palpation experiments and deployed perception stacks on resource-constrained hardware, demonstrating both fine-grained experimental skill and production-oriented design.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mechanical Engineering at Northeastern University
Chinese, English