Zhengyi Luo
Research Scientist at Cirkit Design
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolZhengyi Luo is a research scientist specializing in humanoid robotics, 3D computer vision, and AR/VR with a decade of experience spanning industry research and startup founding. Currently at NVIDIA after internships there and at Apple, Meta, and other leading labs, he brings practical systems experience alongside a CMU PhD in Robotics. He co-founded Cirkit Design in the Bay Area, showing an entrepreneurial bent that complements his academic work as a long-running CMU graduate researcher. His background blends real-time 3D software engineering with cutting-edge perception for embodied agents, informed by hands-on roles across both research and product teams. Based in Pittsburgh, he is known for bridging rigorous academic research with production-minded implementation—often prototyping systems that move from lab demos to industry collaborations. An approachable collaborator who goes by “Zen,” he maintains an active web portfolio that highlights reproducible projects and demos.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Wuhan No.2 High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Robotics at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (106)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ZhengyiLuo/PHC
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Official Implementation of the ICCV 2023 paper: Perpetual Humanoid Control for Real-time Simulated Avatars
Contributions:9 PRs, 131 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 5 months
avatarhumanoid-controlhumanoid-robotisaac-gymphysics-simulation
KlabCMU/KinPoly
Nov 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:33 commits, 48 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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