Yong-dian Jian
Software Engineer at Waymo
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYong-dian Jian is a seasoned software engineer and leader with 16 years of experience specializing in SLAM, HD mapping, and multi-sensor calibration across platforms from mobile XR to autonomous vehicles. He has built mapping and visual-inertial teams from scratch at Google and Argo AI, led cross-company integrations, and delivered production features that unblocked product launches. His work spans a wide range of sensors (camera, lidar, IMU, GPS) and deployment environments (edge devices, drones, cars, cloud), combining deep mathematical rigor with practical system architecture and middleware design. Known for making complex sensor stacks run efficiently and robustly, he also brings hands-on project management and team-building experience. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and holding a PhD-level background from Georgia Tech, he mixes research pedigree with repeated production impact in autonomy and XR.
16 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (16)
simulator9
ros9
deep-reinforcement-learning9
computer-vision8
simulation8
unreal-engine-48
self-driving-car7
autonomous-driving7
carla7
cross-platform7
imitation-learning7
artificial-intelligence7
deep-learning7
autonomous-vehicles6
ai6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
haidai/gtsam
Mar 2010 - Jun 2014
Contributions:171 commits in 4 years 4 months
carla-simulator/carla
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Open-source simulator for autonomous driving research.
Contributions:2 comments in 17 days
deep-reinforcement-learningsimulationcarlasimulatorsimulator-source
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