Yufan Ren
Lausanne, Swiss, China
Summary
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SeniorYufan Ren is an Embodied AI VLA Engineer with a PhD from EPFL and nine years of experience at the intersection of computer vision, image signal processing, and multimodal reasoning. He has moved between cutting-edge research and industry, contributing to Meta’s Superintelligence Labs on post-training multimodal Llama work and building 3D perception prototypes during an NVIDIA robotics internship before joining XPENG. Trained at Zhejiang University and seasoned through research stints at UCLA and HKUST, he blends rigorous academic methods with practical system-building for embodied agents. Known for bridging low-level ISP insights with high-level multimodal models, he excels at turning perception research into deployable AI components for real-world robotics and vehicle platforms.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (30)
autonomous-vehicles10
self-driving-car10
apollo10
autonomous-driving10
machine-learning9
autonomy9
python8
ai8
pytorch8
langchain8
music-generation7
java7
llm7
llama7
computer-graphics7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ryf1123/Oasis-in-the-Sky
Nov 2018 - Oct 2019
Project of Computer Graphics @ ZJU in 2018-2019 autumn-winter
Contributions:54 commits, 2 PRs, 49 pushes in 11 months
winterautumncomputer-graphicszjujava
IVRL/VolRecon
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 2 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years 1 month
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