Yimeng Li
Senior Software Engineer at Schnackel Engineers, Inc.
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYimeng Li is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience bridging deep learning research and production software, currently based in Omaha. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from George Mason University, where his research focused on embodied agent navigation, learning-augmented planning, and autonomous robotic interaction with household environments. Yimeng has industry research internships in aerial and BEV object detection and a track record of building practical systems—from UAS frameworks for fall-hazard monitoring to model-based exploration algorithms—alongside teaching and curriculum design for AI and vision courses. He combines rigorous experimental methodology and paper-writing with hands-on engineering at scale, and prefers collaborative, respectful teams where he’ll go out of his way to help. An interesting detail: his work spans both ground and aerial perception (UAS and UAV imagery) and emphasizes time-limited exploration strategies for robots operating in novel spaces.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Software Engineering at East China Normal UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at George Mason University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (32)
face-detection10
robotics10
simulator10
segmentation10
face-recognition10
object-detection10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
computer-vision10
visual-recognition10
reinforcement-learning9
python9
deep-learning9
ai8
modular8
artificial-intelligence7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yimengli46/Superpixels-in-Convex-Holes
Dec 2017 - Apr 2021
Contributions:12 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
yimengli46/yimengli46.github.io
Nov 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
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