Xudong Sun
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Motional
Munich, Bavaria, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXudong Sun is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in multi-object tracking, sensor fusion, and perception for autonomous driving. He has progressed from research roles to technical leadership at TuSimple and Motional, delivering production-grade tracking systems including a deployed MHT implementation and a lightweight, highly accurate data-association model. His background spans deep learning for LiDAR and vision, control theory and robotics, and unconventional interests in causality, topological data analysis, and biology that inform robust, interdisciplinary approaches to state estimation. Based in Munich, he combines hands-on model development with team-level goal setting and metric-driven evaluation, often focusing on robustness to occlusion and noisy inputs. Notably, he has a track record of shipping efficient models to production—from face detection benchmarks to real-time lane and tracking systems—bridging research innovations with deployable engineering.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Peking University
Github Skills (200)
multilabel-classification10
gymnasium10
autocomplete10
language-server-protocol10
vim-plugin10
regression10
r-language10
variable-selection10
linter10
clustering10
optimization10
file-management10
r10
statistics10
mlr10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
smilesun/DomainLab
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
causality based domain generalization for deep learning
Contributions:329 commits, 19 PRs, 159 pushes in 1 year 1 month
pytorchautoencoderadversarial-learninggeneralizationdeep-learning
marrlab/DomainLab
Aug 2022 - Feb 2023
modular domain generalization: https://pypi.org/project/domainlab/
Contributions:21 releases, 145 reviews, 129 commits in 6 months
pytorchgeneralizationdeep-learningdomain-generalizationdomain
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