Yaofeng Zhong
Founding Research Scientist at Breakpoint AI
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
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Shenzhen Middle SchoolUndergraduate, Civil Engineering, GPA:90.6/100 (Rank:9/102), Undergraduate, Civil Engineering, GPA:90.6/100 (Rank:9/102) 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 (47)
drones9
ros9
ros-node8
simulation8
mavlink8
autopilot8
modeling-tool7
git7
px47
reinforcement-learning-environments7
rover7
power-systems7
computer-graphics7
sequential7
raspberry-pi7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DesmondZhong/Lagrangian_caVAE
Sep 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 42 commits, 19 pushes in 2 years
Physics-aware-AI/DiffCoSim
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 release, 69 commits, 11 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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