Yaodong Cui
Co-founder & CTO CIO & Perception Team Lead at LoopX
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolYaodong Cui is a co-founder and CTO/CIO leading perception at LoopX.AI, a Waterloo startup applying deep learning and autonomy to make mining operations safer, more efficient, and sustainable. With a PhD and postdoctoral research at the University of Waterloo, he specializes in LiDAR-based and sensor-fusion perception for full autonomous driving, including work on WATonoBus—the university’s self-driving shuttle. Over eight years he has translated academic research into product-grade autonomy, helping LoopX become the first Canadian startup to develop full-autonomy last-mile delivery robots. Yaodong blends hands-on algorithm development with strategic technical leadership, overseeing both R&D and company-wide technical direction. He holds advanced degrees in deep learning, system control, and automation, and brings a rare combination of field-focused engineering and research rigor to industrial autonomy.
8 years of coding experience
Master of Engineering - MEng, system control and signal processing, Master of Engineering - MEng, system control and signal processing at University of SouthamptonBachelor's degree, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician, Bachelor's degree, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician at Chang'an UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, deep learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, deep learning at University of Waterloo
德语, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (69)
unreal-engine-410
simulator10
3d-object-detection10
ros10
autonomous-driving10
autonomous-vehicles10
kitti-dataset10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
computer-vision10
airsim10
carla10
artificial-intelligence10
lidar10
simulation10
imitation-learning10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
yaodongC/awesome-instruction-dataset
Mar 2023 - Jan 2024
A collection of open-source dataset to train instruction-following LLMs (ChatGPT,LLaMA,Alpaca)
Contributions:1 review, 9 PRs, 27 pushes in 9 months
awsome-listsdatasetsgpt-3gpt-4instruction-following
loopx-ai/haystack
Mar 2023 - Apr 2023
:mag: Haystack is an open source NLP framework to interact with your data using Transformer models and LLMs (GPT-3 and alike). Haystack offers production-ready tools to quickly build ChatGPT-like question answering, semantic search, text generation, and more.
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
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