William Shen
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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RockstarWilliam Shen is a PhD student at MIT CSAIL with a decade of engineering experience building perception, planning, and control systems that enable robots to operate in complex, long-horizon tasks. His research blends AI, computer vision, and robotics and has produced first-author work presented at RSS, complemented by internships at NVIDIA and Apple’s robotics groups. Prior to his PhD he shipped large-scale, production-grade systems at AWS and co-founded two startups, demonstrating an ability to move from research to deployed, revenue-generating products. Based in Cambridge, MA, he pairs rigorous academic training (University Medal, ANU) with practical systems engineering, often focusing on test-time scaling and robustness for real-world robot manipulation. An under-the-radar strength is his track record of building operational services—both in industry and startups—that process millions of events and materially improve reliability.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (40)
photogrammetry10
3d-reconstruction10
ml-project9
3d-graphics9
robotics9
pytorch9
laravel9
machine-learning9
3d9
hypergraph9
computer-vision9
collaboration8
deep-learning8
gleam8
spec8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
williamshen-nz/recschedule-website
Feb 2022 - Apr 2026
(Not so) Simple script to parse the MIT recschedule into a website
Contributions:3 reviews, 3 PRs, 39 pushes in 4 years 1 month
mitparseso-simpleparser
williamshen-nz/STRIPS-HGN
Mar 2020 - Jul 2021
Learning Domain-Independent Planning Heuristics over Hypergraphs (ICAPS'20)
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 4 months
hypergraph
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