Tong Zhao
Product Safety at Apple
Cedar Park, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTong Zhao is a product safety engineer and Ph.D.-trained vehicle controls specialist with eight years of experience building and validating automotive software and powertrain systems. He blends deep academic expertise in vehicle dynamics, optimal control and hybrid powertrain optimization with hands-on engineering—authoring C++, MATLAB, and embedded C tools for simulation, ECU interfacing, and HIL profiling. At Hyliion he automated release pipelines, built GT‑Suite APIs, and delivered web services and tooling that measurably increased team productivity; he now applies that systems-thinking to product safety at Apple. His background spans ROS 2 pipelines and CUDA acceleration for perception, MPC longitudinal control for autonomous trucks, and novel energy-efficient control strategies from DOE-funded research. Comfortable across low-level embedded code to high-level data-driven models, he has a rare mix of physics, control theory, and full-stack engineering cultivated through university research and industry internships. Based in Cedar Park, Texas, he’s equally at home optimizing a fuel-economy DP solver as diagnosing a subtle timing issue on an in-vehicle controller.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Electrical Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Electrical Engineering at Wuhan UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Physics (Condensed Matter Physics), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Physics (Condensed Matter Physics) at Nanjing UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical Engineering at The Ohio State UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Physics (with focus on Quantum Mechanics), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Physics (with focus on Quantum Mechanics) at University of Waterloo
Chinese, English
Github Skills (9)
medium9
fastest7
pytorch6
deep-learning6
machine-learning6
omniverse6
autonomous-driving5
nvidia4
reinforcement-learning3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nexthybrid/reachability-tools
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
nexthybrid/PyCarPlt
Oct 2022 - Aug 2023
A python matplotlib-based plotting library for car-related vector images
Contributions:18 PRs, 12 pushes, 21 branches in 10 months
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