Summary
Zhihao Li is a software engineer in Seattle with 9 years of experience specializing in embodied AI, robot learning, multimodal pre-trained models, and reinforcement learning. He holds a CS master's from Brown and a BS from the University of Washington, and currently engineers systems for Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios after hands-on roles building navigation and vision features for commercial robots. His recent work includes productionizing RAG chatbots and document-extraction pipelines using Qwen2, LangChain, and vLLM, and improving classification accuracy with tailored models like TextCNN and XGBoost. Comfortable across C++, Python, ROS, and large LLM toolchains, he blends robotics sensor-level expertise with scalable ML system design. Notably, his cliff-detection C++ implementation was deployed on 50 robots in eight malls, and his document extraction service achieved 97% field accuracy—evidence of impact from prototype to production.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Washington
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Brown University