Zhaoyuan Gu
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolZhaoyuan Gu is a Ph.D. robotics researcher at Georgia Tech with 11 years of hands-on experience building and controlling legged and articulated robots. He has developed dynamic control frameworks for humanoids at Toyota Research Institute—achieving agile motions at 2 m/s with 500 Hz control—and implemented industrial motion planning solutions using OMPL and RRT*-based trajectory search at Mechmind. His work spans simulation (Drake/C++), optimal tracking, QP and inverse dynamics controllers, and simplified models like 3D-LIPM for planning, combining rigorous theory with production-focused performance. Beyond internships, he prototypes novel platforms—having designed a monkey robot, a snake robot, and worked on hexapod locomotion—demonstrating both creative hardware intuition and software depth. Based in Atlanta, he brings a rare blend of robot dynamics expertise and practical motion-planning skills that accelerate bringing agile legged systems toward real-world deployment.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua UniversityMaster's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English
Github Skills (74)
state-machine10
robotics10
verification10
robot10
behavior9
behavior-tree9
solver9
command-line-interface9
drake9
ros9
game-ai9
quadratic9
fsm9
cpp8
optimization8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
guzhaoyuan/epos2
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:43 commits, 38 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
guzhaoyuan/net.tsinghua
Apr 2016 - Apr 2019
Command Line Interface for Tsinghua Network Login
Contributions:1 release, 15 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years
command-linecommand-line-interfacetsinghuacli
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