Steven Gong
Research Scientist at RAI Institute
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Gong is a research scientist focused on simulation-to-reality transfer, robot manipulation, and foundation models, currently working at RAI Institute after internships and applied scientist roles at Microsoft and Amazon. With a compact but impactful two years of post-graduate industry experience and ongoing PhD research at UCLA, he blends rigorous academic training with practical systems-building in Isaac ROS and robotics stacks. His background spans applied research and production-facing science, bridging sim environments and real-world robot control—an emphasis reflected in his Isaac ROS work. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves quickly from prototype to deployment while keeping an eye on generalizable model-based solutions.
2 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (40)
visual-odometry10
jetson9
nvidia9
scene8
ros8
localization8
robotics8
occupancy-grid-map8
slam-algorithms7
slam7
3d-reconstruction7
gpu6
hardware6
pose6
object-detection5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
NVIDIA-ISAAC-ROS/range_libc
Nov 2023 - Nov 2023
A collection of optimized ray cast methods for 2D occupancy grids including the CDDT algorithm. Written in C++ and CUDA with Python wrappers.
Contributions:6 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
stevengongNV/sphinx-markdown-builder
Oct 2023 - Oct 2023
A Sphinx extension to add markdown generation support.
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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