Xinyan Yan
Software Engineer at Aurora
El Paso, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXinyan Yan is a software engineer and robotics researcher with 13 years of experience, currently building planning and control for self-driving vehicles at Aurora. She combines deep academic expertise—a PhD in Robotics from Georgia Tech and publications at ICML, RSS, CoRL and ICRA—with practical industry experience from internships at Google Brain Robotics, Honda Research Institute, DAQRI, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Her work spans imitation learning, stochastic model predictive control, SLAM, sparse Gaussian processes, and large-scale ML, with a current focus on leveraging human demonstrations to tackle high-dimensional sequential decision problems. Known for translating theory into real-time systems, she has a track record of shipping algorithms grounded in probabilistic modeling and system identification. Based in El Paso, she brings both rigorous research instincts and production-oriented engineering to autonomy challenges.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, GPA: 3.84, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, GPA: 3.84 at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Information Security Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Security Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (5)
predictor4
optimization2
variance1
reduction1
gradient1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vchu/hri7633
Nov 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:10 commits in 24 days
XinyanGT/DotFiles
Feb 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:12 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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