Wenpeng Wang
Research Scientist at Apple
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWenpeng Wang is a research scientist based in Austin with nine years of experience building sensor-enabled IoT systems for wireless sensing, indoor localization, and energy-efficient smart buildings. His work fuses Wi‑Fi, BLE, mmWave radar, and camera data with deep learning to detect, localize, and identify objects in retrofit-ready smart building deployments. After a PhD in computer engineering from the University of Virginia and internships at Bosch, he now applies this research at Apple, translating commodity-sensor innovation into product-grade solutions. Wenpeng has a track record of self-supervised and contrastive learning approaches for cross-modal distillation and practical embedded sensor fusion from prior roles at BU and UVA. He is particularly strong at making advanced sensing techniques work on existing infrastructure, balancing algorithmic novelty with deployment constraints. Colleagues describe him as a researcher who moves seamlessly between theory and hands-on prototyping to deliver usable, energy-conscious systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering at University of VirginiaBachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Beijing Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University
Github Skills (15)
energy2
energy-data2
javascript2
smartthings2
iot-application2
smartmeter2
embedded2
zephyr1
pytorch1
iot1
deep-learning1
lidar1
tuya1
home-automation1
autonomous-driving1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nelson-wpwang/Occupancy-Sensing-WiFi
Apr 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:34 commits, 11 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 months
nelson-wpwang/Network-in-the-Physical-World
Sep 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
boston-universityphysical
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