William Shen
PhD Student at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam 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.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge A Levels, Cambridge A Levels at King's College, Auckland
English, Chinese
Github Skills (46)
photogrammetry10
computer-vision10
planning10
3d-reconstruction10
3d-graphics9
pytorch9
laravel9
machine-learning9
3d9
collaboration8
deep-learning8
d3-charts8
pddl7
gleam7
sdf7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
williamshen-nz/recschedule-website
Feb 2022 - Oct 2024
(Not so) Simple script to parse the MIT recschedule into a website
Contributions:3 reviews, 3 PRs, 37 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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
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