Wesley Chan
Robotics Lead at A&K Robotics
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolWesley Chan is a Robotics Lead with 12 years of experience building and scaling autonomy stacks that integrate perception, planning, and real-time decision-making for fielded platforms. He has led teams across industry and academia—from prototyping at Monash and UBC to deploying systems at A&K Robotics—turning complex R&D into robust, deployable products. His research background (PhD, The University of Tokyo) and postdoctoral work span human-robot interaction, assistive and social robotics, and augmented reality, giving him a strong interdisciplinary edge. Wesley contributes to open-source robotics tooling (notably improving ROS particle filter tracking code to support namespaces and HSV coherence) and emphasizes practical system engineering for dynamic environments. Based in Vancouver, he combines hands-on implementation with curriculum development and large-scale project leadership, including contributions to a multi-million dollar robotics precinct.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of TokyoMaster of Applied Science, Biomedical Engineering, Master of Applied Science, Biomedical Engineering at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (9)
pcl10
point-cloud-library10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
ros10
computer-vision9
robotics8
github8
fest6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jsk-ros-pkg/jsk_recognition
Apr 2014 - Jun 2015
JSK perception ROS packages
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 16 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Wesley primarily focused on enhancing the `particle_filter_tracking_nodelet` within a ROS (Robot Operating System) package. Their contributions involved publishing tracked object transformations, removing redundant code declarations, and allowing the use of namespaces for simultaneous node operation. Furthermore, they added an HSV color coherence feature for improved particle filter tracking and made adjustments to the maximum distance parameter.
ros-packagesrosperception
wesleypchan/mbzirc_task2
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 15 pushes, 3 branches in 11 days
task2
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