Tianyu Shi
Researcher at Gradient
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTianyu Shi is a researcher and Ph.D. engineer with 8+ years bridging cutting-edge reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, and LLM agent research with real-world AI productization. Trained at University of Toronto, McGill, UC Berkeley and MILA, he has authored 40+ publications across top venues (ICML, NeurIPS, ACL, ICRA, Nature sub-journals) and accumulated 800+ citations with an H-index of 21. He has a track record of industrial collaboration and system deployment with companies like Momenta, Megvii, and startups such as Skywork AI, complementing academic supervision and teaching experience. Tianyu maintains long-standing research partnerships with top labs (Tsinghua, Peking, MIT, DeepMind, Meta) and blends project incubation skills with large-scale AI system expertise. Notably, his background spans both transportation engineering and foundational AI, enabling cross-disciplinary solutions from autonomous driving to agent orchestration.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting student researcher, Visiting student researcher at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Engineering at University of TorontoBachelor's degree vehicle engineering, Bachelor's degree vehicle engineering at Beijing Institute of TechnologyMaster of Engineering - MEng(thesis) Major in Transportation Engineering minor in Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng(thesis) Major in Transportation Engineering minor in Computer Science at McGill University
English, German, Chinese
Github Skills (150)
eclipse10
sumo10
traffic-simulation10
traffic10
simulation10
transport10
portable9
benchmark9
ros9
reinforcement-learning9
deep-reinforcement-learning8
robotics8
autonomous-driving8
embedding8
simulator8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SHITIANYU-hue/COMP-767-project
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:48 commits, 45 pushes in 3 days
SHITIANYU-hue/Efficient-motion-planning
Aug 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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