Xuchen Han
Summary
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RockstarXuchen Han is a robotics-focused software engineer with five years of experience building simulation and physical AI systems from research to product. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he progressed from academic research at UCLA to roles at X's robotics group and Toyota Research Institute before joining a stealth startup as a founding member of technical staff. He contributes to high-impact open-source robotics tooling—most notably enhancements to the widely used Drake library to support deformable geometries and contact modeling—bridging advanced simulation with practical robotics needs. Xuchen combines strengths in model-based design, backend engineering, and scientific rigor from a B.A. in Mathematics/Economics, enabling robust implementations of complex physical models. Colleagues describe him as someone who translates theoretical mechanics into production-quality code, and he has a track record of shipping examples and new classes that expand simulation realism.
6 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
robotics10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
geometry9
linear-algebra9
simulations9
simulation9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
RobotLocomotion/drake
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Model-based design and verification for robotics.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Robotics Engineer
Backend Developer & Robotics EngineerContributions:6 releases, 3256 reviews, 221 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Xuchen primarily contributed to the Drake robotics library by refactoring code related to Doxygen comments in the geometry module and adding a mass-spring cloth example. They implemented features involving deformable geometries, including a comprehensive suite of new classes such as VolumetricElement, and contributed to building a more robust set of tools for describing contact, including DeformableContact and its supporting classes. These changes enhanced the library's capabilities for simulating deformable objects, particularly within a robotics context.
roboticsdrake
xuchen-han/drake
Jul 2020 - Nov 2025
Model-based design and verification for robotics.
Contributions:26 reviews, 18 PRs, 2094 pushes in 5 years 5 months
robotics
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