Summary
Sijia Chen is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and tech lead based in California with nine years of experience building production ML and perception systems for autonomous vehicles. She currently leads an end-to-end Foundation Model team at XPENG after driving LiDAR-centric BEV and range-view perception models at Cruise that improved accuracy, range, latency, and memory footprint. Her background spans ADAS, multi-task mono-3D, and LiDAR segmentation, and she has hands-on experience working with ML acceleration informed by prior exposure to ASIC design contexts. Sijia has a Master’s in Computer Science from UT Dallas and a consistent track record of deprecating legacy models by delivering higher-performing, efficient replacements. Colleagues know her for bridging research and deployment: she iterates rapidly on model metrics while collaborating closely with hardware and acceleration teams. She is not currently seeking opportunities.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
Bachelor's degree Computer Science & Technology, Bachelor's degree Computer Science & Technology at Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai
English, Chinese