Zhinan Xu
Senior Staff Software Engineering at Waymo
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolZhinan Xu is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Mountain View with 11 years of expertise building computer vision and ML systems for self-driving vehicles, currently leading perception research and development at Waymo. He has a strong academic foundation—MS from UCLA with a perfect GPA—and hands-on experience across industry leaders including Google, NVIDIA, and Facebook, where he shipped production features and high-accuracy visual odometry. Zhinan’s work spans recognition, 3D reconstruction, and graphics problems like automatic rigging and rendering, blending research rigor with production-grade engineering. Notably, he has delivered SLAM and stereo VO systems tested over tens of kilometers with sub-percent translation error, reflecting a focus on robust real-world performance.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, 90/100, Computer Science, 90/100 at Sun Yat-Sen UniversityMaster of Science (MS), Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at University of California, Los AngelesHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
English, Chinese
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Github contributions (5)
jadenxu/photometric-reconstruction
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes in 2 days
jadenxu/faceRecog
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes in 1 day
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