Summary
Yi-hsuan Hsieh is a Senior Software Engineer with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UT Austin and 11 years of experience building high-performance end-to-end systems at the intersection of robotics, sensing, and AI. He has designed fault-tolerant robot architectures and behavior coordination systems in C++ for production robotics, and most recently is shaping software architecture for automated driving at Qualcomm. His research created sensing-quality-aware robot programming tools that quantify timing and camera metrics to give practical recommendations—work validated in top conferences (ICRA, RTSS) and shown to cut task times significantly. Experienced across embedded, distributed, and backend systems, he repeatedly turns ideas into fast prototypes and deployable products, from smartphone vision apps to Neo4j sensor-data models. Based in San Diego, he blends rigorous academic methods with hands-on engineering to solve real-world autonomy and sensing challenges.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at National Taiwan University
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University
Chinese, English