Yingchuan Hu
Staff Software Engineer at Waymo
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolYingchuan Hu is a Staff Software Engineer based in Mountain View with 12 years of experience and 9+ years focused on AI engineering, specializing in computer vision, distributed systems, robotics, and engineering infrastructure. He has driven production-grade visual search, AR, and deep learning services at Amazon and now tackles autonomy-scale challenges at Waymo, combining research rigor with large-scale system design. Earlier work at Cognex delivered commercial vision-guided robotics products and a Universal Motion Control Interface that sped customer integration, reflecting a knack for bridging vision algorithms to hardware and control. Yingchuan’s background spans academic research in signal/video coding to practical ML infrastructure—he repeatedly identifies model-development bottlenecks and builds tools that accelerate prototyping and deployment. Notably, he blends low-level optimization experience with systems thinking, enabling both high-accuracy vision algorithms and robust, scalable backend services.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Tsinghua-Berkeley Global Technology Entrepreneurship Program, Tsinghua-Berkeley Global Technology Entrepreneurship Program at University of California, BerkeleyElectrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University
Japanese, Chinese, English
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Github contributions (3)
yingthu/splines
Nov 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:11 commits in 2 days
yingthu/Autostitch
Oct 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:16 commits in 17 days
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