Yunfei Zhang
CO-FOUNDER&CEO at ViWiStar Technologies
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolYunfei Zhang is a PhD-trained robotics and machine learning leader with 10+ years of experience applying reinforcement and supervised learning to planning, perception, and decision-making for mobile robots, ADAS, and autonomous vehicles. As Co-Founder & CEO of ViWiStar Technologies he combines hands-on R&D, product development and fundraising to bring robotic products to market, drawing on prior technical leadership roles at Huawei, General Motors and Bosch. He has deep practical expertise in C++, ROS, PCL and enterprise C#/MS SQL systems, and a track record of turning academic prototypes (including a homecare robot and SegPanda simulator) into real-world systems. Comfortable leading multicultural teams and managing industry–academia partnerships, he is notable for bridging theoretical DRL research with deployable sensing and planning solutions.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Robotics/Machine Learning/Visual Navigation/Optimal Control, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Robotics/Machine Learning/Visual Navigation/Optimal Control at The University of British ColumbiaBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Automation, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Automation at Qingdao University of Science and TechnologyMaster of Science (MSc), Automotive& Infomation System Development, Master of Science (MSc), Automotive& Infomation System Development at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (9)
scene8
keras5
machine-learning4
deep-learning4
computer-vision4
python4
image-text3
algorithm3
tensorflow3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
felixBrave/ocr_chinese
Dec 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
felixBrave/evm_ffmpeg
Nov 2015 - Dec 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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