Sherry Chen
Senior Robotics Software Engineer at SyntheticFi
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSherry Chen is a senior robotics engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of experience building and shipping production robot fleets and ML-driven control systems. At Chef Robotics she helped scale 50+ deployed robots that have produced over 70M meals, contributing core decision-making, motion planning and manipulation algorithms and later leading ML projects like PointNet pick-weight prediction and LLM-guided manipulation tuning. Previously at Nuro she integrated learned interaction models into safety-critical planners and built simulation and benchmarking systems for interactive autonomous driving, and her academic work includes a first-author ICRA 2021 paper on attention-based RL for urban driving. She combines hands-on systems engineering with research fluency—running robot-learning experiments on her own hardware that achieved 90%+ ACT success—and stays active as a reviewer, mentor, and workshop organizer. Her background spans entrepreneurship and product delivery, from founding a climate-robotics nonprofit to shipping consumer-facing robot products at emerging startups.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Management (Entrepreneurship), Bachelor's degree Management (Entrepreneurship) at The Wharton SchoolHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Shanghai High SchoolMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Chinese, English, French
Github Skills (4)
arduino7
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platformio6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sherrychen1120/MIDAS
Jul 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:12 commits, 1 push in 1 year 1 month
mhasek/LiDART
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:35 pushes in 3 months
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