Tian Liu
Senior Systems Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTian Liu is a Senior Systems Software Engineer at NVIDIA with nine years of experience specializing in mapping and visual localization for autonomous vehicles. He joined NVIDIA through the DeepMap acquisition and has progressed from intern roles to leading systems work that ties GPU computing to real-world mapping pipelines. Tian combines strong academic foundations—a 4.0 MS in ECE from Carnegie Mellon and a BE from Harbin Institute of Technology—with hands-on robotics competition success building vision-based detection and pose estimation systems. His work spans crowd-sourced mapping, image keypoint localization, and production-grade systems engineering in Mountain View. Notably, he blends low-level algorithmic expertise (solvePnP, calibration) with practical deployment on GPU-accelerated platforms, making him effective at closing the gap between research prototypes and scalable mapping services.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Automation, 92/100, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Automation, 92/100 at Harbin Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Electrical & Computer Engineering, 4.0, Master of Science - MS, Electrical & Computer Engineering, 4.0 at Carnegie Mellon University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (90)
python10
rapids10
gpu10
cpp10
pydata10
opencl10
dataframes10
pandas10
data-science10
dask10
cuda10
heterogeneous10
data-analysis10
cudf10
dataframe10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kingcrimsontianyu/cudf
Sep 2024 - Apr 2025
cuDF - GPU DataFrame Library
Contributions:255 pushes, 34 branches in 6 months
kingcrimsontianyu/QuarterLife
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Quarter Life is a first-person adventure game
Contributions:1 release, 1 commit, 184 pushes in 1 day
blueprintgamepersonadventure-gamegame-development
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