Yunlong Song
Member Of Technical Staff at Genesis AI
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolYunlong Song is a Member of Technical Staff and PhD candidate at the Robotics and Perception Group (UZH/ETH) with 11 years of experience at the nexus of machine learning and optimal control for robotics. He has blended academic depth—visiting MIT on differentiable simulation and earning summa cum laude in robotics—with hands-on engineering roles across research labs and startups, currently building robots at Genesis AI. His contributions to the open-source quadrotor simulator Flightmare show a practical focus on robust build and CI/CD systems, improving developer workflows and deployment reliability. Comfortable moving between research and production, he has repeatedly bridged simulation, control, and scalable engineering to accelerate robot capabilities.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Machine Learning, summa cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Machine Learning, summa cum laude at University of ZurichTechnischen Universität Darmstadt
English, Chinese, German
Github Skills (8)
github-ci10
cmake10
githubaction-workflow10
build-automation10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
yaml8
testing7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
uzh-rpg/flightmare
Jul 2020 - May 2022
An Open Flexible Quadrotor Simulator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 39 reviews, 205 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Yunlong's commits primarily focused on setting up and maintaining the project's build and deployment processes. They fixed errors within the GitHub workflow YAML files, ensuring the continuous integration pipeline functioned correctly. Additionally, the user made modifications to the testing and environment setup files and made several changes to the project's cmake files to improve the build process. This suggests a focus on improving the development workflow and build system.
simulatorquadrotorsimulationflexible
uzh-rpg/flightmare_unity
Oct 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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