Yaofeng Zhong
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolYaofeng Zhong is a founding research scientist at Breakpoint AI with eight years of experience applying deep learning, optimization, dynamical systems, and control to industrial automation, robotics, and metaverse problems. He earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton under Prof. Naomi Ehrich Leonard and led physics-informed AI research at Siemens, producing lead-author publications at NeurIPS, ICLR, and L4DC. Yaofeng combines practical prototyping for products like SIMATIC Robot Pick AI with expertise in differentiable physics (Nvidia Warp, Brax, Nimble) and frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, and Nvidia Modulus. He is skilled at turning rigorous mathematics into production-ready R&D, bridging simulation, control, and industrial deployment. Based in San Francisco, he is motivated by building societally beneficial AI solutions that close the gap between theory and industrial practice.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Shenzhen Middle SchoolUndergraduate Civil Engineering, Undergraduate Civil Engineering at Tsinghua UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mechanical Engineering at Princeton University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (44)
pytorch-lightning10
prediction10
unsupervised-learning9
ros9
nvidia9
ros-node8
drones8
dynamical-systems8
pytorch8
modeling-tool8
autopilot7
mavlink7
simulation7
quantum-mechanics7
git7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Physics-aware-AI/Symplectic-ODENet
Jun 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:146 commits, 43 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 6 months
Physics-aware-AI/DiffCoSim
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
By introducing a differentiable contact model, DiffCoSim extends the applicability of Lagrangian/Hamiltonian-inspired neural networks to enable learning of hybrid dynamics.
Contributions:1 release, 69 commits, 11 pushes in 2 years 1 month
neural-network
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