Zhihao Z
Student Researcher at Toyota Research Institute
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhihao Z is a PhD student researcher in computer science at UCLA with five years of industry and research experience across autonomy, ADAS, and AI-driven perception. Currently at Toyota Research Institute, he develops world model–based simulation for end-to-end driving, building on prior research internships at Qualcomm and Honda focused on behavioral modeling, scene graphs, and human action segmentation. He holds an MS in EECS and a BA in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from UC Berkeley, combining strong theoretical grounding with practical systems experience from teams at Amazon, JD.com, Tencent, and WeBank. Zhihao’s background spans both product-facing internships (Lab126 devices, speech synthesis) and core research, giving him a rare fluency in moving algorithms toward deployed systems. Colleagues describe him as someone who navigates between large-scale data engineering and cutting-edge perception research, often surfacing insights that bridge simulation and real-world behavior. Based in Los Angeles, he brings a cross-institutional perspective (Berkeley to UCLA) and a track record of translating research prototypes into components used by engineering teams.
5 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at University of California, BerkeleyYale Young Global ScholarsUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (20)
simulation10
autonomous-driving9
prototyping9
sumo9
full-stack8
machine-learning7
automation7
carla7
computer-vision7
deep-learning6
pose-estimation6
generative4
heterogeneous3
speech3
pytorch3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sethzhao506/research_review_by_year
Dec 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
sethzhao506/digitaltwin_mec
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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