Zhiyuan Li
Senior Software Engineer at Woven by Toyota
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhiyuan Li is a Senior Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 10 years of experience designing and shipping real-time planning and control software for autonomous systems. He holds a PhD in Guidance, Navigation, and Control and has applied that research across domains—from hard disk servo control to drone autopilots and now motion planning for self-driving vehicles—always coding close to hardware in C++ and Python under constrained onboard compute. At DJI and IntelinAir he built SDKs and autopilot stacks for industrial UAV applications, and at WeRide.ai and Woven by Toyota he focused on safety-first motion planning that balances comfort and robustness. Known as a learner, tinkerer, and father, he automates tedious workflows to make systems more reliable and practical in the field. A less obvious strength is his track record of translating academic adaptive-control ideas into production firmware and enterprise tools for mapping, inspection, and precision agriculture.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Guidance Navigation and Control for Unmanned Vehicle Systems, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Guidance Navigation and Control for Unmanned Vehicle Systems at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignM.S EE, M.S EE at Harbin Institute of Technology
Chinese
Github Skills (11)
vim8
emacs-lisp8
emacs8
melpa7
computer-vision7
emacs-lsp6
slam5
testing2
cuda1
gpu1
optical-flow1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TirelessTinkerer/dji-mobilesdk-vision
Jul 2017 - Nov 2019
Do computer vision with a DJI drone and a mobile device.
Contributions:36 commits, 11 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 years 4 months
visioncomputer-visionmobile-devicedjidrone
TirelessTinkerer/tirelesstinkerer.org
Dec 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:129 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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